[68] _Ballads_, i. 338-340; see also various "Additions and Corrections" in the later volumes, and s.v. _Elf_, _Elves_, etc. in the _Index of Matters and Literature_. [69] _Morte Darthur_ (ed. Sommer), vi. l. 3. [70] See below, p. 131. [71] See J.M. Synge, _The Aran Islands_ (1907), p. 48, and A. Nutt, _Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare_, p. 22. [72] See Synge, _op. cit._, p. 47. [73] See his admirable article on _Sir Orfeo_ in the _American Journal of Philology_, vii. 176-202. _The Courtship of Etain_ may be seen in English, translated from the two versions in Egerton MS. 1782. and the "Leabhar na h-Uidhri"--an eleventh century Irish MS.--in _Heroic Romances of Ireland_, by A. H, Leahy, i. 7-32. [74] A. Nutt, _Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare_, p. 12. [75] _Wyf of Bathe's Tale_, 1-6. [76] See A. Nutt, _op. cit._, pp. 16-17; and various authorities given by G.L. Kittredge, _op. cit._, p. 196 notes. [77] Pronounced _shee_. [78] Mr. Alfred Nutt (_op. cit._, pp. 19-23) is at pains to show the close association of the _Tuatha De Danann_ with ritual of an agricultural-sacrificial kind, in the aspect they have assumed--"fairies"--to the modern Irish peasant. The Sidhe have fallen from the high estate of the romantic and courtly wooers and warriors, as they must once have fallen from the Celtic pantheon. [79] Chap, xxv. (E.E.T.S. edition, 72). Oberon recites his history again in chap. lxxxiv. (p. 264). [80] Chap. xxii. (E.E.T.S. edition, p. 65, sqq.). [81] Cf. Child's _Ballads_, Nos. 2 (_The Elfin Knight_), 4 (_Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight_), 41 (_Hina Etin_), and perhaps 35 (_Allison Gross_), with his note on the last, l. 314, referring to No. 36 (_The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea_). [82] See above, p. 51. [83] See p. 124, l. 39. [84] _Tarlton's News out of Purgatory, published by Robin Goodfellow_ (1590), Shakespeare Society reprint, p. 55. [85] See above, p. 41. [86] See the extracts from Scot's _Discovery of Witchcraft_ and the _Robin Goodfellow_ tract, pp. 133-140 and 81-121. [87] Romeo and Juliet, I. iv. 33-94. See above, p. 37. [88] Had I been able to find a book, _Veridica relatio de daemonio Puck_, referred to in the article _Diable_ in the _Dictionnaire des Sciences Occultes_ (in Migne, tome 48, vol. i., p. 475), it might be that it would prove of great interest. In any case this allusion (pointed out to me by Mr. R.B. McKerrow) is an early instance of Puck used as a proper name. [89] Abbreviated from E.K. Chambers' full analysis with references, _Warwick Shakespeare_ edition of _M.N.D._ pp. 142-4. [90] See II. i. 155.