and boasts of greater powers.
There is no doubting either voice or words:
“More swift than lightning can I flye
And round about this ayrie welkin soone.
And in a minutes space descry
Each thing that’s done belowe the moone”.
There are two more fairy songs in the Reliques: one given “with some corrections” from a seventeenth century garland, the other, Bishop Corbet’s “Farewell” to the fairies. The first contradicts the second, for obeying the invocation
“Come, follow, follow me
You fairy elves that be”,