[416] Lodge, iii. 38.

[417] Winwood, ii. 155.

[418] Many of the numbers in the song-books of the madrigalists and lutenists probably had their origin in entertainments. The Triumphs of Oriana (1601), for example, may have been written as a whole for a royal birthday or maying; cf. also examples in Fellowes, 121, 328, 434, 464, 485.

[419] Cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 154.

[420] Cf. ch. xxiv.

[421] Cf. ch. xxiv.

[422] M. N. D. 11. i. 148:

'Thou rememb'rest

Since once I sat upon a promontory.

And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back