Note 258 — ACT I. SCENE I.

saint Patrick, &c.] Saint Patrick’s Purgatory was a cavern in the southern part of the county of Donegall, much frequented by pilgrims: see a long note concerning it, by Reed, on Heywood’s Four P’s,—Dodsley’s Old Plays, vol. i. p. 59, last ed.; also the prefatory matter to Owain Miles, in a very interesting volume, containing that and other pieces of early poetry, edited by Mr. W. B. D. D. Turnbull and Mr. D. Laing, Edinb. 1837.