[379] Athenæum, Oct. 9, 1847.
[380] Hist. of England, i. 478, 8vo edit.
[381] Deut. Mythol. p. 419.
[382] Layamon's Brut, etc., by Sir Frederick Madden.
[383] Tales and Popular Fictions, ch. viii. We do not wonder that this should have eluded previous observation, but it is really surprising that we should have been the first to observe the resemblance between Ariosto's tale of Giocondo and the introductory tale of the Thousand and One Nights. It is also strange that no one should have noticed the similarity between Ossian's Carthon and the tale of Soohrâb in the Shâh-nâmeh.
[384] Both here and lower down we would take faërie in its first sense.
[385] Thrope, thorpe, or dorp, is a village, the German dorf; Dutch dorp; we may still find it in the names of places, as Althorpe. Dorp occurs frequently in Drayton's Polyolbion; it is also used by Dryden, Hind and Panther, v. 1905.
[386] Undermeles i. e. undertide (p 51), aftermeal, afternoon.
[387] This is the third sense of Faërie. In the next passage it is doubtful whether it be the second or third sense; we think the latter.