THE ELIZABETHAN FAIRIES

204 THE FAIRIES OF SHAKESPEARE
The fairies
He was the master of his Trade
It curiously that buikded:
The Windowes of the eyes of Cats,
And for the Roofe, instead of Slats,
Is couer'd with the skinns of Batts,
With Mooneshine that are g~i1ded.l~~
Hop, and Mop, and Drop so cleare,
Pip, and Trip, and Skip that were,
To Mab their Soueraigne euer deare:
Her special1 Maydes of Honour;
Fib, and Tib, and Pinck, and Pin,
Tick, and Quick, and Iill, and Iin,
Tit, and Nit, and Wap, and Win,
The Trayne that wayte vpon her.
Vpon a Grashopper they got,
And what with Amble, and with Trot,
For hedge nor ditch they spared not,
But after her they hie them.
A Cobweb ouer them they throw,
To shield the winde if it should blowe,
Themselues they wisely could bestowe,
Lest any should espie them.ls6
The acorn cup for each fairy, provided as a hiding
place in A Midsummer Night's Dream, is replaced by
one hazel nut, '' In th' end of which a hole was cut,"
in which the entire retinue of the queen, and Mab her-
self, are comfortably housed:
. . . . . . . . . .
Each one may here a chuser be,
For roome yee need not wrastle:
Nor neede yee be together heapt;
*36 Page 125, 11. 41-48.
136 Page 128, 11. 161-176.