Quick and nimble!
Round about little ones!
In and out, wheel about,
Run, hop, or amble!”
Thus they danced for a good space, then sat themselves down upon the grass, and the Fairies told Robin of many Elfish tricks and merry capers; until, the time passing, a shepherd in a field near by blew his pipes so loudly that he frightened little Tom Thumb.
The Fairies punished the shepherd by the loss of his pipes, so that they presently broke in his hand, to his great amazement. Hereat Robin Goodfellow laughed, “Ho! Ho! Ho!”
The morning being come, at cock-crow the Fairies hastened away to Fairyland, where I think they yet remain.