Note 477 — ACT III.

Spenser, in his Epithalamion, alludes to the practice of sprinkling the bridal-bed with violets:— “Now day is doen and night is nighing fast, Now bring the Bryde into the brydall bowres: The night is come, now soone her disaray, And in her bed her lay; Lay her in lilies and in violets, And silken courteins over her display.”