[188]. Upton. Critical Observations, p. 217.
Whalley. Enquiry, pp. 55, 56.
Measure for Measure, iii. 1. 118.
Platonick Hell of Virgil. Farmer quotes in a note Aeneid, vi. 740-742.
[188]. an old Homily. “At the ende of the Festyuall, drawen oute of Legenda aurea, 4to, 1508. It was first printed by Caxton, 1483, ‘in helpe of such Clerkes who excuse theym for defaute of bokes, and also by symplenes of connynge’ ” (Farmer).
brenning heate. “On all soules daye, p. [152]” (Farmer).
Menage. Cf. p. [109].
our Greek Professor. Michael Lort (1725-1790), Regius Professor in Cambridge University from 1759 to 1771.
Blefkenius,—Dithmar Blefken, who visited Iceland in 1563 and wrote the first account of the island. “Islandiae Descript. Lugd. Bat. 1607, p. 46” (Farmer).
After all, Shakespeare's curiosity, etc.... original Gothic (top of p. [190]), added in second edition.