[Footnote 1: In _Shakespeare Studien_, chap. 4, Hense treats
Shakespeare's attitude towards Nature very suggestively; but I have
gone my own way.]
[Footnote 2: _Hamlet_, i. 3: 'The canker galls the infants of the
spring too oft before their buttons be disclosed.' Comp. i. 1; _Romeo
and Juliet_, i. 1; _Henry VI._, part 2, iii. 1; _Tempest_, i. 2.]
[Footnote 3: Comp. Henkel, _Das Goethe'sche Gleichnis_; _Henry IV._,
2nd pt., iv. 4; _Richard II._, i. i; _Othello_, iii. 3, and v. 2;
_Cymbeline_, ii. 4; _King John_, ii. 2; _Hamlet_, iii. 1; _Tempest_,
iv. 2.]
[Footnote 4: See Hense for bucolic idyllic traits.]
[Footnote 5: _Poetische Personifikation in griechischen Dichtungen._]