[120] See Swainson’s “Weather-Lore,” pp. 182, 183.
[121] See Williams’s “Superstitions of Witchcraft,” pp. 123-125; Scot’s “Discovery of Witchcraft,” bk. iv. p. 145.
[122] “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 405.
[123] Nares’s “Glossary,” 1872, vol. ii. p. 580.
[124] “Primitive Culture,” vol. i. p. 131.
[125] Cf. “Richard III.” (iv. 4); “1 Henry IV.” (i. 1, iii. 1); “Antony and Cleopatra” (iii. 13); “The Tempest” (i. 2); “Hamlet” (i. 4); “Cymbeline” (v. 4); “Winter’s Tale” (iii. 2); “Richard II.” (iv. 1).
[126] “Primitive Culture,” vol. i. p. 131; see Brand’s “Popular Antiquities,” 1849, vol. iii. pp. 341-348.
[127] “Walton’s Lives,” 1796, p. 113, note.
[128] Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 397.
[129] Ibid. p. 3.