Folk-lore of Shakespeare. Dyer Thomas Firminger Thiselton

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      “Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of ‘A Midsummer-Night’s Dream,’” 1845, p. xiii.

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      “Fairy Mythology,” p. 325.

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      Aldis Wright’s “Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” 1877, Preface, pp. xv., xvi.; Ritson’s “Fairy Mythology,” 1875, pp. 22, 23.

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      Essay on Fairies in “Fairy Mythology of Shakspeare,” p. 23.

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      “Fairy Mythology,” 1878, p. 325.

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      Notes to “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” by Aldis Wright, 1877, Preface, p. xvi.

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      “Three Notelets on Shakespeare,” pp. 100-107.

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      See Croker’s “Fairy Legends of South of Ireland,” 1862, p. 135.

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      “Fairy Mythology,” 1878, p. 316.

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      Wirt Sikes’s “British Goblins,” 1880, p. 20.

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      This is reprinted in Hazlitt’s “Fairy Tales, Legends, and Romances, illustrating Shakespeare and other English Writers,” 1875, p. 173.

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      “Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of the Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” printed for the Shakespeare Society, p. viii.

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      See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 508-512.

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      Thoms’s “Three Notelets on Shakespeare,” p. 88.

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      See Nares’s Glossary, vol. ii. p. 695.

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      Mr. Dyce considers that Lob is descriptive of the contrast between Puck’s square figure and the airy shapes of the other fairies.

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      “Deutsche Mythologie,” p. 492.

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      See Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” pp. 318, 319.

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      “Three Notelets on Shakespeare,” pp. 79-82.

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      Showing, as Mr. Ritson says, that they never ate.

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      “Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft,” 1831, p. 121.

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      “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 115.

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      “Elizabethan Demonology,” p. 50.

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      Agate was used metaphorically for a very diminutive person, in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings. In “2 Henry IV.” (i. 2), Falstaff says: “I was never manned with an agate till now; but I will inset you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master, for a jewel.” In “Much Ado About Nothing” (iii. 1) Hero speaks of a man as being “low, an agate very vilely cut.”

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      See Grimm’s “Deutsche Mythologie.”

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      Thoms’s “Three Notelets on Shakespeare,” 1865, pp. 38, 39.

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      See Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” 1878, p. 208.

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      See also Thorpe’s “Northern Mythology,” 1852, vol. iii. p. 32, etc.

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      Gunyon’s “Illustrations of Scottish History, Life, and Superstitions,” p. 299.

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      Chambers’s “Book of Days,” vol. i. p. 671.

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      Among the various conjectures as to the cause of these verdant circles, some have ascribed them to lightning; others maintained that they are occasioned by ants. See Miss Baker’s “Northamptonshire Glossary,” vol. i. p. 218; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 480-483; and also the “Phytologist,” 1862, pp. 236-238.

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      Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 112.

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