Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

AND BALLADS, 209
Every night before wegoe,
We drop a teller in her fhoe.
Then o'er a mufhroomes head 25
Our table-cloth we fpread;
A grain of rye, or wheat,
The diet that we eat ;
Pearly drops of dew we drink
In acorn cups fill'dto the brink, 30
The braines of nightingales,
With un&uous fat of fnailes,
Between two cockles ftew'd,
Is meat that's eafily chew'd ;
Tailes of wormes, and marrow of mice 35
Do make a dim, that's wonderous nice.
The grafnopper, gnat, and fly,
Serve for ourminitrelfy,
Grace faid, we dance a while,
And fo the time beguile : 40
And if the moon doth hide her head,
The glow-worm lightes us home to bed.
O'er tops of dewy grafie
So nimbly we do pafTe,
The young and tender ftalk 4-5
Ne'er bends where we do walk :
Yet in the morning may be feene
Where we the night before have beene.
Vol. HI. P XXVI. THE