To this great Fairy I'll commend thy acts.
Antony and Cleopatra, act iv. sc. 8.
And Milton speaks
Of Faery damsels met in forests wide
By knights of Logres or of Lyones,
Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellinore.
Yet he elsewhere mentions the
Faery elves,
Whose midnight revels by a forest side
Or fountain some belated peasant sees.
Finally, Randolph, in his Amyntas, employs it, for perhaps the last time, in its second sense, Fairy-land:
I do think
There will be of Jocastus' brood in Fairy.
Act i. sc. 3.
We must not here omit to mention that the Germans, along with the French romances, early adopted the name of the Fées. They called them Feen and Feinen.[21] In the Tristram of Gottfried von Strazburg we are told that Duke Gylan had a syren-like little dog,
| Dez wart dem Herzoge gesandt | 'Twas sent unto the duke, pardé, |
| Uz Avalun, der Feinen land, | From Avalun, the Fays' countrie, |
| Von einer Gottinne.—V. 1673. | By a gentle goddess. |
In the old German romance of Isotte and Blanscheflur, the hunter who sees Isotte asleep says, I doubt