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

3i4 ANCIENT SONGS,^.
C( An excellent way to gett a Fayrie. (Formyfelf
I call Margarett Barrance; but this will obteine
any one tjjat is not allready bawnd-.)
s< FIRST, gett a broad fquare chrijlali or Venice
glajje, in length and breadth 3 inches. Than lay that glajfe
or chrijlali in the bhud cf a white ken?ie, 3 Wednefdayes, or
3 Fridayes. Th,en take it out, and wajh it with holy aq.
and fumigate it. Then take 3 hazle flicks, or wands of
hkyeare grotb : pill them fay re and white ; and make ' them'
foe longe, as you write the Spiritts name., or Fayries
name, which you call, 3 times en e-very JHcke being made
jlait on one fide. Then bury them under fome hill, 'whereas
you fiip-boje Fayries haunt, the Wednefday before you call
her : And the Friday followinge take them uppe, and call
her at 8 or 3 or 10 of the clocke, which be good planetts
and houres for that iurne : but when you call, be in cleane
life, and turne thy face towards the eafl. And when you
have her, bind her to that ft one or glajfe"
*' An Unguent to annoynt under the Eyelids, and upon
the Eyelids ewninge and morninge : but efpecially 'when
you call ; or findyour fight net perfeci.
'* R. A pint of fallet-oyle, and put it into a