[145] Horace, “Ars Poetica,” 185—
“Ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet.”
[146] Charity is the full name.
[147] There is a chapter on charms in Hunt’s “Popular Romances of the West of England.”
[148] Compare Hawker’s poem, “Modryb Marya”—
“Now the holly with her drops of blood for me:
For that is our dear Aunt Mary’s tree.”
[149] Compare the poem, “A Croon on Hennacliff.”
[150] Hawker was no doubt reminded of his own impersonation of a mermaid at Bude. For many quaint legends about mermaids and mermen, see Hunt’s “Popular Romances of the West of England.”
[151] Compare Browning’s lines—
“Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary’s saying serves for me—
(When fortune’s malice
Lost her—Calais)—
Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, ‘Italy.’”