[139] Mr. Ritson says that Milton “is frequently content to pilfer a happy expression from Shakespeare—on this occasion, ‘night-wanderer.’” He elsewhere calls it “the friar’s lantern.”
[140] Thorpe, “Northern Mythology,” 1852, vol. iii. pp. 85, 158, 220.
[141] “Notelets on Shakespeare,” pp. 64, 65.
[142] Ibid.
[143] See Proctor’s “Myths of Astronomy;” Chambers’s “Domestic Annals of Scotland,” 1858, vol. ii. pp. 410-412; Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” pp. 364, 365.
[144] See Patterson’s “Insects Mentioned by Shakespeare,” 1841, p. 145.
[145] “Letters,” vol. i. p. 310; vol. vi. pp. 1, 187.—Ed. Cunningham.
[146] Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 369.
[147] See Tylor’s “Primitive Culture,” vol. i. pp. 364-367.
[148] See Swainson’s “Weather-Lore.”