[1] P. 160. _upright_, flat on the back. This is the older meaning, which
Drayton would find in Chaucer.
[2] _hays_, dances. Cf. _heydeguys_, p. 148.
[3] P. 161. _aulfe_. Cf. "ouphs," _Merry Wives of Windsor,_ V. v.
[4] _Pigwiggen_. "Piggy-widden" is a west-country dialect term, meaning a
little white pig, used as an endearment for the youngest of a family.
[5] P. 162. _starved_, i.e. killed.
[6] P. 166. _The Tuscan poet_, Ariosto; _the frantic Paladin,_ Orlando
Furioso.
[7] P. 170. "_Ho, ho._" See note (p. 189) on _Robin Goodfellow_.
[8] _vild_, an old form of "vile."
[9] _lin_, stop.
[10] P. 174. _fern-seed._ A very common superstition, which still survives,
is that the seeds of the fern have power to confer invisibility.
[11] _lunary,_ a name given to several plants, here probably moonwort. It
was supposed to open locks.
[12] P. 175. _lubrican_, the name of an Irish pigmy sprite, otherwise
called _leprechaun_.
[13] _fire-drake,_ a fiery dragon. The word also meant a meteor.
[14] P. 178. _bent_, grass-stalk.
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INDEX
Aegeus, 12
Aegles, 9
Aethra, 9
Alberich, 36
Alcmena, 9
_Amazonide_, 13
_Anelida and Arcite_, 13
Antiopa, 9-10
Apuleius, 30
Arcite, 12-25
Ariadne, 9
Aristotle, 12
Arthur, King, 44, 48, 57
Arthurian cycle, 57-8
Auberon, 35
Avalon, 43
Ballads: _Tam Lin_, 38, 53
_Thomas the Rhymer_, 46-7
_King Orfeo_, 52
Boccaccio, 12-14
Bodin, 30
Bottom, 29-30
Breton lays, 54-5
Chambers, E.
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