A Cob-web over them they throw

To shield the wind if it should blow,

Themselves they wisely could bestow,

Lest any should espy them.

“At length one chanced to find a nut,

In the end of which a hole was cut,

Which lay upon a hazel-root,

There scattered by a Squirrel,

Which out the kernel gotten had;

When quoth this fay, ‘Dear queen, be glad,