You actually see this near the top of the handout, the allusion from the Faerie Queene.

Seated above on rocks and stumps and surrounding me were the faeries, as they called themselves, quietly talking together as if I were not even there.

Thus every now and then he saw in fancy amid the sailors, seated on a rock, or undulating in the vessel, one of the shadows which had Shared his dream with looks and kisses.