The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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least read his Ovid in the Latin.
[32] Ed. Brinsley Nicholson, p. 32. Book III, chap. ii. (See p. 135.) [33] _Romeo and Juliet_, I. iv, 53, sqq. [34] In II. i. 40, "sweet puck" is no more a proper name than "Hobgoblin"; so also in l. 148 of the same scene. In neither case should the name be printed with a capital P. [35] II. i. 34. [36] V. i. 418, 421. [37] Wright, _English Dialect Dictionary_, s.v. Puck, gives Scotland, Ireland, Derby, Worcester, Shropshire, Gloucester, Sussex and Hampshire as localities where the name is recorded. [38] Text H in Child's _Ballads_, I. 352. [39] Campbell's _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_ (1890), vol. ii, tales xxv, xxvi, etc. [40] _Ballads_, I. 314, and note. [41] _M.N.D._, II. i. 40. (See note on p. 37.) [42] _The Wyf of Bathe's Tale_, at the beginning; and elsewhere. [43] _The Faerie Queene,_ chiefly in Book II, where in Canto X, stanzas |
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