[35] II. i. 34.
[36] V. i. 418, 421.
[37] Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, s.v. Puck, gives Scotland, Ireland, Derby, Worcester, Shropshire, Gloucester, Sussex and Hampshire as localities where the name is recorded.
[38] Text H in Child's Ballads, I. 352.
[39] Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands (1890), vol. ii, tales xxv, xxvi, etc.
[40] Ballads, I. 314, and note.
[41] M.N.D., II. i. 40. (See note on p. [37].)
[42] The Wyf of Bathe's Tale, at the beginning; and elsewhere.
[43] The Faerie Queene, chiefly in Book II, where in Canto X, stanzas 70-76, he gives a fictitious list of the generations of fairies; the first "Elfe" was the image made by Prometheus, to animate which he stole fire from heaven; the list ends with Oberon, and Tanaquil the Faerie Queen.