[361] Probably pronounced _Poke_, as still in Worcestershire. Our ancestors frequently used _ou_, or _oo_ for the long _o_ while they expressed the sound of _oo_ by _o_ followed by _e_, as _rote_ root, _coke_ cook, _more_ moor, _pole_ pool. [362] Passus xvii. _v._ 11,323 _seq._ ed. 1842. Comp. _vv._ 8363, 9300, 10,902. [363] Mr. Todd is right, in reading _pouke_ for _ponke_, an evident typographic error: wrong in saying, "He is the Fairy, Robin Good-fellow, known by the name of Puck." Robin is the "hob-goblin" mentioned two lines after. [364] We know nothing of the Oriental origin of Puck, and cannot give our full assent to the character of our ancestry, as expressed in the remaining part of Mr. Gifford's note: "but a fiend engendered in the moody minds, and rude and gloomy fancies of the barbarous invaders of the North." It is full time to have done with describing the old Gothic race as savages. [365] _Der Putz würde uns über berg und thäler tragen._ To frighten children they say _Der Butz kommt!_ see Grimm, Deut. Mythol. p. 474. [366] The former made by adding the Anglo-Saxon and English _el_, _le_; the latter by adding the English _art_: see p. 318. [367] By Sir F. Palgrave, from whose article in the Quarterly Review, we have derived many of the terms named above. He adds that the Anglo-Saxon _pæcan_ is to deceive, seduce; the Low-Saxon _picken_ to gambol; _pickeln_ to play the fool; _pukra_ in Icelandic to make a murmuring noise, to steal secretly; and _pukke_ in Danish to scold. He further adds the Swedish _poika_ boy, the Anglo-Saxon and Swedish _piga_ and Danish _pige_ girl. If, however, Pouke is connected with the Sclavonic Bog, these at the most can be only derivations from it. By the way _boy_ itself seems to be one of these terms; the Anglo-Saxon _piga_ was probably pronounced _piya_, and _a_ is a masculine termination in that language. [368] See above, p. 291. In Low German, however, the Kobold is called Bullmann, Bullermann, Bullerkater, from _bullen_, _bullern_, to knock: see Grimm, _ut sup._ p. 473. [369] Essay on the Ignis Fatuus, quoted by Thoms. [370] And you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms.--_Tempest_, v. 1. [371] Jack-o'-the-lanthorn, Will-o'-the-wisp. In Worcestershire they call it Hob-and-his-lanthorn, and Hobany's- or Hobredy's-lanthorn. Allies, _ut sup._ [372] Knight of the Burning Pestle: see above, p. 309. [373] _Ard_ is the German _hart_, and is, like it, depreciatory. It is not an Anglo-Saxon termination, but from the Anglo-Saxon [Old English: doll], _dull_, we have _dullard_. May not _haggard_ be _hawk-ard_, and the French _hagard_ be derived from it, and not the reverse?