[15] See Nares’s Glossary, vol. ii. p. 695.
[16] Mr. Dyce considers that Lob is descriptive of the contrast between Puck’s square figure and the airy shapes of the other fairies.
[17] “Deutsche Mythologie,” p. 492.
[18] See Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” pp. 318, 319.
[19] “Three Notelets on Shakespeare,” pp. 79-82.
[20] Showing, as Mr. Ritson says, that they never ate.
[21] “Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft,” 1831, p. 121.
[22] “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 115.
[23] “Elizabethan Demonology,” p. 50.
[24] Agate was used metaphorically for a very diminutive person, in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings. In “2 Henry IV.” (i. 2), Falstaff says: “I was never manned with an agate till now; but I will inset you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master, for a jewel.” In “Much Ado About Nothing” (iii. 1) Hero speaks of a man as being “low, an agate very vilely cut.”