_Oberon_ is the English transliteration of the French Auberon in the romance of _Huon of Bordeaux_, and Auberon is probably merely the French counterpart of Alberich or Albrich, a dwarf occurring in the German _Nibelungenlied_ and other works. Etymologically Alberich is composed of _alb_ = elf and _rich_ = king. The name Oberon appears first in English literature in Lord Berners' translation of _Huon of Bordeaux_ (c. 1534), and afterwards in Spenser[27] and in Robert Greene's play _James IV_, which was acted in 1589.[28] But the king of the fairies in Chaucer[29] is Pluto, and the queen Proserpine. _Titania._ Proserpine is the wife of Pluto (in Greek, form, Persephone, wife of Dis). In Elizabethan times, Campion's charming poem "Hark, all you ladies that do sleep"[30] keeps the name of "the fairy-queen Proserpina." Shakespeare appears to have taken the name Titania from Ovid,[31] who uses it as an epithet of Diana, as being the sister of Sol or Helios, the Sun-god, a Titan. Scot, in his _Discovery of Witchcraft_,[32] gives Diana as one of the names of the "lady of the fairies"; and James I, in his _Demonology_ (1597) refers to a "fourth kind of sprites, which by the Gentiles was called Diana and her wandering court, and amongst us called the Phairie." Curiously enough in Shakespeare's most famous description of the Fairy Queen, she is called Queen Mab;[33] this is said to be of Celtic derivation. Mercutio's catalogue of Mab's attributes and functions corresponds closely with the description of Robin Goodfellow.