He was taken home; but his wounds were too bad, and he died, and was taken again to Fairy Land, and did not reappear on earth till Thunston's (?) reign.
[*] The chronology is somewhat involved. The king could not have been King Arthur, for Tom was not remembered by him, and at the end of the book it says—
"And to his memory they built
A monument of gold
Upon King Edgars dagger hilt
Most glorious to behold."
The Third Part opens with the Fairy Queen again despatching Tom to earth, and also, as before, his advent is unpropitious.
"Where he descended thro the Air,
This poor unhappy man,