[657] “Book of Days,” vol. i. p. 575; see “British Popular Customs,” pp. 228-230, 249.
[658] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” vol. i. pp. 247-270; “Book of Days,” vol. i. pp. 630-633.
[659] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 550.
[660] See Drake’s “Shakespeare and his Times,” 1817, vol. i. p. 163.
[661] “Encyclopædia of Antiquities,” 1843, vol. ii. p. 653.
[662] See “British Popular Customs,” p. 278; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. i. p. 276.
[663] According to the crusaders and the old romance writers a Saracen deity. See Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. ix. p. 214.
[664] See Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 482.
[665] “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, pp. 25-28; see Warton’s “History of English Poetry,” vol. ii. p. 202.
[666] “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 154.