Note 324:A — Chapter IX
Reading edition
Reed's Shakspeare, vol. iv. p. 453. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act iv. sc. 1. Buchanan also beautifully records the same traditionary imagery:
"Festa Valentino rediit lux—— Quisque sibi sociam jam legit ales avem. Inde sibi dominam per sortes quærere in annum Mansit ab antiquis mos repetitus avis; Quisque legit dominam, quam casto observet amore, Quam nitidis sertis obsequioque colat: Mittere cui possit blandi munuscula Veris."