Note to A Midsummer's Night Dream, 2.1.149-150: "Since once I sat upon a promontory, / And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back"


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Since once I sat upon a promontory, / And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back:

Oberon and the Mermaid by Joseph Noel Paton, 1883
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