[743] Notes on “Jonson’s Works,” vol. ix. p. 58.
[744] “Primitive Culture,” vol. ii. p. 43.
[745] See “British Popular Customs,” p. 404; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 237, 246; Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 439.
[746] See Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 222.
[747] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol ii. pp. 267-270.
[748] “Primitive Culture,” vol. ii. p. 30.
[749] “Primitive Culture,” 1873, vol. ii. p. 423.
[750] Durandus, “De Officio Mortuorum,” lib. vii. chap. 35-39.
[751] Dr. Johnson thought the words of the clown in “Hamlet” (v. 1), “make her grave straight,” meant, “make her grave from east to west, in a direct line parallel to the church.” This interpretation seems improbable, as the word straight in the sense of immediately occurs frequently in Shakespeare’s plays.
[752] See Malone’s note, Variorum edition, xiv. 400.