Mab, Queen, 37, 64, 149-150 _Malleus Maleficarum_, 30 Marie de France, 47 Massinger, Philip, 23 May, observance of, 24 _Merchant of Venice_, 2 _Metamorphoses_, 31,36 Mider, 55-6 _Midsummer-Night's Dream_: date, 1-2; character, 2-3; three component plots, 4; main (sentimental) plot, 9-25; grotesque plot and interlude, 29-32; fairy plot, 35-66 Morgan le Fay, 43, 57 Nashe, Thomas, 12, 40-1 Norns, 42 North, Lord: Plutarch's _Life of Theseus_, 9, 12 Nutt, Alfred, 41 _Nymphidia_, 158-187 Oberon, 35-6. His Vision, 66-8 Ogier the Dane, 43 _Orpheo_, 49-52 Orpheus, 49-50 Ovid, 31, 36 Palamon, 12-25 _Palamon and Arcite_, 22-3 _Palladis Tamia_, 1 Pelops, 9 Perrault, 35 Philostrate, 12, 24 Pirithous, 16 Pittheus, 9 Plutarch, 9, 12 Pluto, 36 Proserpine, 36 Puck, 37-40, 64 Pyramus, 29, 31-2, 73-80 Queen of Fairies, 36-7, 45, 49 Romances (metrical): _Thomas of Erceldoune_, 45-7, 122-132; _Sir Launfal_, 47-9; _Sir (King) Orpheo_, 49-52 Saxo Grammaticus, 42 Scot, Reginald, 29-30, 36, 39 Spenser, Edmund, 36, 39 Statius, 13, 15 Subterranean descents, 44 Superstition (modern), 31 _Tempest_, 3 _Teseide_, 13-14 _Thebais_, 13 Theseus, 9-11 Thisbe, 29, 31-2, 73-80 Thomas of Erceldoune, 45-6, 122-32 Titania, 36 _Troilus and Criseyde_, 14 Tuatha De Danann, 59, 65 _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 2 _Two Noble Kinsmen_, 23, 25 Witches, 31 * * * * * _Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay_.