[12] See below, _France_. It is also remarked that in some of the tales of the Pentamerone, the number of the _Fate_ is three; but to this it may be replied, that in Italy every thing took a classic tinge, and that the Fate of those tales are only Maghe; so in the Amadigi of Bernardo Tasso we meet with La _Fata_ Urganda. In Spain and France the number would rather seem to have been seven. Cervantes speaks of "los siete castillos de las _siete_ fadas;" in the Rom. de la Infantina it is said, "_siete_ fadas me _fadaron_, en brazos de una ama mia," and the _Fées_ are _seven_ in La Belle au Bois dormant. In the romance, however, of Guillaume au Court-nez, the _Fées_ who carry the sleeping Renoart out of the boat are _three_ in number.--See Grimm Deutsche Mythologie, p. 383. [13] A MS. of the 13th century, quoted by Grimm (_ut sup._ p. 405), thus relates the origin of Aquisgrani (Aix la Chapelle): Aquisgrani dicitur Ays, et dicitur eo, quod Karolus tenebat ibi quandam _mulierem fatatam_, sive quandam _fatam_, quæ alio nomine _nimpha_ vel _dea_ vel _adriades_ (l. _dryas_) appellatur, et ad hanc consuetudinem habebat, et eam cognoscebat; et ita erat, quod ipso accedente ad eam vivebat ipsa, ipso Karolo recedente moriebatur. Contigit dum quadam vice ad ipsam accessisset ut cum ea delectaretur, radius solis intravit os ejus, et tunc Karolus vidit _granum auri_ lingue ejus affixum, quod fecit abscindi et contingenti (l. in continenti) mortua est, nec postea revixit. [14] "Aissim _fadaro_ tres serors En aquella ora qu' ieu sui natz Que totz temps fos enamoratz."--_Folquet de Romans._ (Thus three sisters _fated_, in the hour that I was born, that I should be at all times in love.) "Aissi fuy de nueitz _fadatz_ sobr' un puegau."--_Guilh. de Poitou._ (Thus was I _fated_ by night on a hill.)--Grimm, _ut sup._ p. 383. [15] See our Virgil, Excurs. ix. [16] Following the analogy of the Gotho-German tongues, _zauberei_, Germ. _trylleri_, Dan. _trolleri_, Swed. illusion, enchantment. The Italian word is _fattucchieria_. [17] Here too there is _perhaps_ an analogy with _cavalry_, _infantry_, _squierie_, and similar collective terms. [18] The Faerie Queene was published some years before the Midsummer Night's Dream. Warton (Obs. on the Faerie Queene) observes: "It appears from Marston's Satires, printed 1598, that the Faerie Queene occasioned many publications in which Fairies were the principal actors. Go buy some ballad of the FAERY KING.--_Ad Lectorem._ Out steps some Faery with quick motion, And tells him wonders of some flowerie vale-- Awakes, straight rubs his eyes, and prints his tale. B. III. Sat. 6." [19] It is in this century that we first meet with _Fairy_ as a dissyllable, and with a plural. It is then used in its fourth and last sense.