through the hawthorn blows the cold wind; says suum,

1 The young pelican is fabled to suck the mother's blood. The allusions to this fable are very numerous in old writers. 2 It should be observed, that Killico is one of the devils mentioned in Harsnet's Declaration of Popish Impostures. The inquisitive reader may find a further explanation of this word in Minsheu's Dictionary, art. 9299; and Chalmers's Works of Sir David Lindsay, Glossary, v. pillok. 3 “Then Ma. Mainy, by the instigation of the first of the seven, [spirits,) began to set his hands unto his side, curled his hair, and used such gestures as Ma. Edmunds [the exorcist] presently affirmed that that spirit was Pride.” Harsnet's Declaration, &c. 1603. Before each sin was cast out, Mainy, by gestures, acted that particular sin—curling his hair, to show pride, &c. &c. 4. It was anciently the custom to wear gloves in the hat on three distinct occasions, viz. as the favor of a mistress, the memorial of a friend, and as a mark to be challenged by an enemy. 5 Credulous of evil, ready to receive malicious reports.

1 “Dolphin my boy, my boy,

Cease, let him trot by ;
It seemeth not that such a foe
From me or you would fly.”

This is a stanza from a very old ballad, written on some battle fought
in France; during which the king (unwilling to put the suspected valor
of his son, the dauphin, to the trial), as different champions cross the
field, always discovers some objection to his attacking each of them, and
"repeats the two first lines as every fresh personage is introduced; and at
last assists in propping up a dead body against a tree for him to try his
manhood upon. Steevens had this account from an old gentleman, who
was only able to report part of the ballad. In Jonson's Bartholomew
Fair Cokes cries out, “God’s my life He shall be dauphin, my boy l’”
“Hey mommy nonny” is merely the burden of another ballad.
2 The words unbutton here are only in the folio. The quartos read,
Come on, be true.
3.Waughly signifies bad, unfit, improper. This epithet was formerly
employed on serious occasions.
4 The name of this fiend, though so grotesque, was not invented by
Shakspeare, but by those who wished to impose upon their hearers the
belief of his actual existence ; this, and most of the fiends mentioned
by Edgar, being to be found in bishop Harsnet's book, among those
which the Jesuits, about the time of the Spanish invasion, pretended to
cast out, for the purpose of making converts. The principal scene of
this farce was laid in the family of Mr. Edmund Peckham, a Catholic.
Harsnet published his account of the detection of the imposture, by
order of the privy council. “Frateretto, Fliberdigibet, Hoberdidance,
Tocobatto, were four devils of the round or morrice.—These four had
forty assistants under them, as themselves doe confesse. Flebergibbe is
used by Latimer for a sycophant; and Cotgrave explains Coquette by
a Flebergibet or Titifill.”
It was an old tradition that spirits were relieved from the confinement
In which they were held during the day, at the time of curfew, that is,
at the close of the day, and were permitted to wander at large till the
first cock-crowing. Hence, in The Tempest, they are said to “rejoice
to hear the solemn curfew.”
1 The pin and web is a disease of the eyes resembling the cataract in
an imperfect stage.
* About St. Withold we have no certainty. This adventure is not
found in the common legends of St. Vitalis, whom Mr. Tyrwhitt thought
was meant.
3 See Macbeth. 4 i. e. and the water-newt.
5 In the metrical Romance of Sir Bevis, who was confined seven years
in a dungeon, it is said that

“Rattes and mice, and such smal dere,
Was his meat that seven yere.”

1 “The names of other punie spirits cast out of Twyford were these:– Hilco, Smolkin, Hillio,” &c.—Harsmet's Detection, &c. p. 49. Again, “...Maho was the chief devil that had possession of Sarah Williams; but another of the possessed, named Richard Mainy, was molested by a still more considerable fiend, called JModu,” p. 268; where the said Richard Mainy deposes:–“Furthermore it is pretended, that there remaineth still in mee the prince of devils, whose name should be Modu.” And, p. 269:— “When the said priests had despatched their business at Hackney (where they had been exorcising Sarah Williams), they then returned towards mee, upon pretence to cast the great prince Modu out of mee.”

In the Goblins, by sir John Suckling, a catch is introduced, which concludes with these two lines:–

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman;
JMahu, JMahu is his name.”

"This catch may not be the production of Suckling, but the original
referred to by Edgar's speech.
2 Lord Orford has the following remark in the postscript to his Myste-
rious Mother:-" The finest picture ever drawn of a head discomposed
by misfortune is that of king Lear. His thoughts dwell on the Ingrati-

tude of his daughters, and every sentence that falls from his wildness excites reflection and pity. Had frenzy entirely seized him, our compassion would abate; we should conclude that he no longer felt unhappiness.” I Capel observes, that Child Rowland means the knight Orlando. He would read come, with the quartos, absolutely (Orlando being come to the dark tower); and supposes a line to be lost, “which spoke of some giant, the inhabitant of that tower, and the smeller-out of Child Rowland, who comes to encounter him.” He proposes to fill up the passage thus:-“Child Rowland to the dark tower come, [The giant roared, and out he ran;] His word was still,” &c.

Part of this is to be found in the second part of Jack and the Giants,