THE ELIZABETHAN FAIRIES

EARTHLY LIFE OF FAIRIES 147
expressed than in the words of a citizeness of Eastward
Woe:
GYR. . . . Good Lord, that there are no Faires now a
daies, Syn. SYN. Why Madame?
GYR. T o doe Miracles, and bring Ladies money. Sure, if
wee lay in a cleanly house, they would haunt it, Synne? Ile
trie. Ile sweepe the Chamber soone at night, & set a dish of
water o' the Hearth. A Fayrie may come, and bring a Pearle,
or a Diamond. We do not know Synne? Or, there may be
a pot of Gold hid o' the back-side, if we had tooles to digge
for't? why may not we two rise earely i'the morning (Synne)
afore any bodie is vp, and find a Iewell, i'the streetes, worth a
IOO li? . . . for God-sake Syn, let's rise to morrow by breake
of day, and see.'44
Eastward Hoe, 1605, Students' Facsimile ed., 1914, IV, I.