THE ELIZABETHAN FAIRIES

ORIGIN AND NATURE
ABBOT.
But doubt, wee will baith leif and die
With our luif, Sensualitie.
Wee will haif na mair deal1 with the
Then with the Queene of Farie.g8
FLATTRIE.
I na mair will remaine besyd sow,
Bot counsel1 OW, rycht weill to gyde sow,
Byd nocht on Correctioun.
Fair-weil! I will na langer tarie.
I pray the alrich Queene of Farie
To be sour protectio~n.~~
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adeu, Sir King! I may na langer tary.
I cair nocht that: als gude luife cums as gais.
I recommend 30w to the Queene of Farie.
I se 3e will be gydit with my fais.Io0
. . . . . . . . . .
Adew! I may na langer tarie,
I man pas to the King of Farie,
Or ellis the rycht to hell.lol
In Lord Berners' translation of Huon of Burdeux,
1534, Huon has no hesitation in calling Oberon "ye
deuyll," lo2 or of expressing his wonder " how he can
speke of god alrnyghty/ f& I thinke he be a deuyll of
hell/." lo3
as Ibid., pp. 422-423.
99 Ibid., p. 433.
loo Ibid., p. 440.
1°1 Ibid.; p. 532.
loz
E. E. T. S. ed., Vol. I, pt. I, p. 69.
103 Ibid., p. 71.