FOOTNOTES:
[728] Tylor’s “Primitive Culture,” 1873, vol. i. p. 145.
[729] “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1829, pp. 324-326.
[730] “Annals of Worcester,” 1845.
[731] Harland and Wilkinson’s “Lancashire Folk-Lore,” 1869, p. 268; see “English Folk-Lore,” 1878, pp. 99, 100; also “Notes and Queries,” 1st series, vol. iv. p. 133.
[732] Cf. Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” v. 595-683.
[733] See “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, pp. 82, 83.
[734] Tylor’s “Primitive Culture,” vol. ii. p. 46.
[735] Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 246.
[736] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” 1875, vol. viii. p. 291.
[737] “Folk-Lore of Northern Counties,” 1880, p. 58.
[738] Cf. “Winter’s Tale,” iv. 4.
[739] The word in German is kranz, in other Teutonic dialects krants, krans, and crance—the latter being Lowland Scotch—and having cransies for plural. Clark and Wright’s “Hamlet,” 1876, p. 216.
[740] “Pop. Antiq.” vol. ii. p. 303.
[741] See Staunton’s “Shakespeare,” 1864, vol. i. p. 305.
[742] “Shakespeare,” 1875, vol. ix. pp. 209, 210.
[743] Notes on “Jonson’s Works,” vol. ix. p. 58.
[744] “Primitive Culture,” vol. ii. p. 43.
[745] See “British Popular Customs,” p. 404; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 237, 246; Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 439.
[746] See Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 222.
[747] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol ii. pp. 267-270.
[748] “Primitive Culture,” vol. ii. p. 30.
[749] “Primitive Culture,” 1873, vol. ii. p. 423.
[750] Durandus, “De Officio Mortuorum,” lib. vii. chap. 35-39.
[751] Dr. Johnson thought the words of the clown in “Hamlet” (v. 1), “make her grave straight,” meant, “make her grave from east to west, in a direct line parallel to the church.” This interpretation seems improbable, as the word straight in the sense of immediately occurs frequently in Shakespeare’s plays.
[752] See Malone’s note, Variorum edition, xiv. 400.