=Page 73.=--_She was pinch'd._ The _she_ is used in a demonstrative sense, referring to one of the company (this maid), as _he_ (that man) is in the next line. The _Friar_ is the Friar Rush of the fairy mythology, whom Milton seems here to identify with Jack-o'-the-Lantern, or Will-o'-the-Wisp, the luminous appearance sometimes seen in marshy places; but Friar Rush, according to Keightley, "haunted houses, not fields, and was never the same with Jack-o'-the-Lantern." =Page 74.=--_The drudging goblin._ Robin Goodfellow, the Puck of Shakespeare. Cf. _A Midsummer-Night's Dream_, ii, 1. 40:-- "They that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck." _To bed they creep._ Somewhat reluctantly and timidly after the stories of fairies and goblins. _Charles Knight._ An English publisher and author (1791-1873), one of the leading editors and biographers of Shakespeare. =Page 75.=--_William Painter._ He was born in England about 1537, and died about 1594. He studied at Cambridge in 1554, and in 1561 was made clerk of the ordnance in the Tower of London. In 1566 he published the first volume of _The Palace of Pleasure_, containing sixty tales from Latin, French, and Italian authors. The second volume (1567) contained thirty-four tales. In later editions six more were added, making a hundred in all. The collection is the source from which Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists drew many of their plots. =Page 76.=--_Giletta of Narbonne._ The story dramatized by Shakespeare in _All's Well that Ends Well_. =Page 77.=--_The "Gesta Romanorum."_ A popular collection of stories in Latin, compiled late in the 13th or early in the 14th century, and often reprinted and translated. The two stories (of the caskets and of the bond) combined in the _Merchant of Venice_ are found in it; and also the story of Theodosius and his daughters, which is like that of _Lear_, though Shakespeare did not take the plot of that tragedy directly from it. =Page 78.=--_The trumpet to the morn._ The _trumpeter_ that announces the coming of day. _Trumpet_ in this sense occurs several times in Shakespeare; as in _Henry V._ iv. 2. 61: "I will the banner from a trumpet take," etc. _Extravagant and erring._ Both words are used in their etymological sense of wandering. _Extravagant_ is, literally, _wandering beyond_ (its proper _confine_, or limit). _Arden._ There was a Forest of Arden in Warwickshire as well as on the Continent in the northeastern part of France. Drayton, in his _Matilda_ (1594), speaks of "Sweet Arden's nightingales," etc. _The ringlets of their dance._ The "fairy rings," so called, which were supposed to be made by their dancing on the grass. In _The Tempest_ (v. 1. 37) Prospero refers to them thus, in his apostrophe to the various classes of spirits over whom he has control:--