Frank Sidgwick, The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream'… (1908)
“ By wells and rills, in meadows green, We nightly dance our heydeguys; And to our fairy king and queen We chant our moon-light minstrelsies. When larks 'gin sing, Away we fling; And babes new-born steal as we go, And elf in bed We leave instead, And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho! From hag-bred Merlin's time have I Thus nightly revell'd to and fro: And for my pranks men call me by The name of Robin Good-fellow. ”
Frank Sidgwick, The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream'… (1908)
“ Sometimes I meet them like a man; Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound; And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them round. But if, to ride, My back they stride, More swift than wind away I go, O'er hedge and lands, Thro' pools and ponds I whirry, laughing ho, ho, ho! When lads and lasses merry be, With possets and with junkets fine ”
Frank Sidgwick, The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream'… (1908)
“ When I have done, I get me gone, And leave them scolding, ho, ho, ho! When men do traps and engines set In loop-holes, where the vermin creep, Who from their folds and houses, get Their ducks and geese, and lambs and sheep ”
