[374] For in Anglo-Saxon _áttorcoppe_ (_Poison-head?_) is spider, and from _áttorcoppe-web_, by the usual aphœresis of the two first syllables we put _coppe-web_, cobweb. May not the same have been the case with _lob_? and may not the nasty _bug_ be in a similar manner connected with Puck? As _dvergsnat_ is in Swedish a cobweb, one might be tempted to suppose that this last, for which no good etymon has been offered, was _lob-web_; but the true etymon is _cop-web_, from its usual site. Upon the _cop_ right of his nose he hedde A wert.--Chaucer, _Cant. Tales_, _v._ 556. [375] Deut. Mythol. p. 492. [376] See _France_. _In_ is a mere termination, perhaps, like _on_, a diminutive, as in _Catin_ Kate, _Robin_ Bob. _Lutin_ was also spelt _Luyton_: see p. 42. [377] The two lines which follow Fro the nightes mare the witè Paternoster! Where wonest thou Seint Peter's suster? are rather perplexing. We would explain them thus. Bergerac, as quoted by Brand (Pop. Antiq. i. 312. Bohn's edit.) makes a magician say "I teach the shepherds the wolf's paternoster," _i. e._ one that keeps off the wolf. _Wite_ may then be _i. q. wight_, and _wight paternoster_ be a safeguard against the wights, and we would read the verse thus: "Fro the nightes mare the wite paternoster" _sc. blisse it_ or _us_. St. Peter's _suster_, _i. e._ wife (see I Cor. ix. 5) may have been canonised in the popular creed, and held to be potent against evil beings. The term _suster_ was used probably to obviate the scandal of supposing the first Pope to have been a married man. This charm is given at greater length and with some variations by Cartwright in his Ordinary, Act iii. sc. 1. [378] He derives it from the French _oursin_, but the Ang.-Sax. name of the hedgehog is [Old English: erscen]. [379] Athenæum, Oct. 9, 1847. [380] Hist. of England, i. 478, 8vo edit. [381] Deut. Mythol. p. 419. [382] Layamon's Brut, etc., by Sir Frederick Madden. [383] Tales and Popular Fictions, ch. viii. We do not wonder that this should have eluded previous observation, but it is really surprising that we should have been the first to observe the resemblance between Ariosto's tale of Giocondo and the introductory tale of the Thousand and One Nights. It is also strange that no one should have noticed the similarity between Ossian's Carthon and the tale of Soohrâb in the Shâh-nâmeh. [384] Both here and lower down we would take _faërie_ in its first sense. [385] _Thrope_, _thorpe_, or _dorp_, is a village, the German _dorf_; Dutch _dorp_; we may still find it in the names of places, as Althorpe. _Dorp_ occurs frequently in Drayton's Polyolbion; it is also used by Dryden, Hind and Panther, _v._ 1905. [386] _Undermeles_ i. e. _undertide_ (p 51), aftermeal, afternoon. [387] This is the third sense of _Faërie_. In the next passage it is doubtful whether it be the second or third sense; we think the latter. [388]