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Page xvi
... appears to have been the invention of Shakespeare . In Romeo and Juliet she is known by the more familiar appellation Queen • Mab , and in an entertainment given to Elizabeth by the Earl of Hertford at Elvetham in 1591 , there was a ...
... appears to have been the invention of Shakespeare . In Romeo and Juliet she is known by the more familiar appellation Queen • Mab , and in an entertainment given to Elizabeth by the Earl of Hertford at Elvetham in 1591 , there was a ...
Page xix
... appears . In the black - letter ballad of The Merry Puck , or Robin Goodfellow , which is reprinted by Mr. Halliwell ( Phillipps ) in his Introduction to a Midsummer Night's Dream , is the following stanza ( p . 36 ) : Sometimes he'd ...
... appears . In the black - letter ballad of The Merry Puck , or Robin Goodfellow , which is reprinted by Mr. Halliwell ( Phillipps ) in his Introduction to a Midsummer Night's Dream , is the following stanza ( p . 36 ) : Sometimes he'd ...
Page xxi
... appears that the play in question was A Midsummer Night's Dream , but there is evidently something wrong about the story , for the 27th of September in the year 1631 was on a Tuesday . Taking it however for what it is worth , the ...
... appears that the play in question was A Midsummer Night's Dream , but there is evidently something wrong about the story , for the 27th of September in the year 1631 was on a Tuesday . Taking it however for what it is worth , the ...
Page xxiii
... appears to have been regarded as a period when the imagination ran riot , and many of the old super- stitions which characterised it are recorded in Brand's Popular Antiquities . For instance , Grose tells us that any person fasting on ...
... appears to have been regarded as a period when the imagination ran riot , and many of the old super- stitions which characterised it are recorded in Brand's Popular Antiquities . For instance , Grose tells us that any person fasting on ...
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... appear . Sickness is catching : O , were favour so , 180 Yours would I catch , fair Hermia , ere I go ; My ear should catch your voice , my eye your eye , My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody . Were the world mine ...
... appear . Sickness is catching : O , were favour so , 180 Yours would I catch , fair Hermia , ere I go ; My ear should catch your voice , my eye your eye , My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody . Were the world mine ...
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