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Note 98 — XXVII ELIZABETH’S FOOLS AND DWARFS

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Mr. J. F. in the “Athenæum,” 30th August 1913, reminds me it is in “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” iv, 1, l. 103: “A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport to the Prince,” and Mr. Littledale refers me to Scot’s “Discouerie of Witchcraft,” 1584, “The Italian whom he called The Monarch,” p. 42.

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