And he, by Friar’s lantern led,

[Tells] how the drudging goblin sweat 105

To earn his cream-bowl duly set,

When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,

His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn

That ten day-laborers [could not end];

Then lies him down, [the lubber fiend], 110

And, stretched out all the chimney’s length,

Basks at the fire his hairy strength,

And crop-full out of doors he flings,