The Fairies' Farewell.
[1] P. 153, l. 11. [need]. Poetica Stromata reads want.
The Fairy Queen.
P. [155]. The poem was given by Percy in his Reliques from The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, a curious book of which the preface is signed E.P.; the British Museum Catalogue attributes these initials to Edward Phillips, the nephew of John Milton. But Rimbault pointed out that this song occurs in a tract of 1635, A Description of the King and Queen of the Fairies, attributed to Robert Herrick; a single copy of this pamphlet is known, and is in the Bodleian Library.
Nymphidia.
P. [158]. Michael Drayton's fairy-poem was first published in 1627, and perhaps owes a little of its charm to Shakespeare's play, though not so much as Drayton's sonnets to those of the elder poet.
[1] P. 160. upright, flat on the back. This is the older meaning, which Drayton would find in Chaucer.