No din but snores, the house about,

Made louder by the o'er-fed breast

Of this most pompous marriage feast.

The cat, with, eyne of burning coal,

Now crouches 'fore the mouse's hole;

And, crickets sing at th' oven's mouth,

As the blither for their drouth."

Also this description of the midnight capers of the fairies about the house, from Midsummer Night's Dream:—

PUCK.:

"Now the hungry lion roars,