6. Europa was the daughter of Agenores, king of Phrygia. She
was carried away to Crete by Jupiter, disguised as a lovely and
tame bull, on whose back Europa mounted as she was sporting
with her maidens by the sea-shore. The story is beautifully told
in Horace, Odes, iii. 27.
7. See “The Assembly of Fowls,” which was supposed to
happen on St. Valentine’s day.
8. The tidife: The titmouse, or any other small bird, which
sometimes brings up the cuckoo’s young when its own have
been destroyed. See note 44 to “The Assembly of Fowls.”