[949] Boisteau’s “Theatrum Mundi,” translated by John Alday (1574).
[950] 1849, vol. iii. pp. 60, 61.
[951] See Hardwick’s “Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore,” 1872, pp. 197, 224.
[952] The addition in brackets is rejected by the editors of the Globe edition.
[953] Cf. “Measure for Measure,” ii. 2, iii. 1; “Much Ado About Nothing,” v. 1; “Loves Labour’s Lost,” iii. 1.
[954] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1879, vol. i. pp. 44-51; Jones’s “Credulities Past and Present,” pp. 493-507; Hampson’s “Œvi Medii Kalendarium,” vol. i. p. 210; see an article on “Day Fatality” in John Aubrey’s “Miscellanies.”
[955] See Kelly’s “Notices Illustrative of the Drama and Other Amusements at Leicester,” 1865, pp. 116, 118.
[956] Drake’s “Shakespeare and his Times,” p. 352.
[957] “Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore,” p. 81.
[958] “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 974.