# Bibliographical Note on the Verses explained — The Worm Ouroboros

> Chapter companion for The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison.

## What happens

This chapter provides a bibliographical note listing the sources and original works from which the verses in the book are drawn, including poems by William Dunbar, Thomas Carew, Robert Herrick, John Donne, William Shakespeare, and others, as well as traditional ballads and historical references.

## Character check-ins

### Gorice XI

Mentioned in the funeral dirge on King Gorice XI, from Dunbar's 'Lament for the Makaris'.

### Lord Gro

Subject of a lampoon based on an epigram on William Parrie.

### Lady Prezmyra

Song in praise of Prezmyra by Thomas Carew.

### Corund

Corund's Song of the Chine from 'An Antidote Against Melancholy'.

### Corsus

Corsus's ditties from the Roxburgh Ballads and Anacreonta.

### Mivarsh

Mivarsh's staves on Salapanta from Herrick's 'Hesperides'.

### Corinius

Corinius's love ditty and song on his Mistress from 'Merry Drollerie'.

### Laxus

Laxus's Serenade from Anacreonta.

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