Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knight-hoods bending knee:
Fairies use flowers for their charactery."[343:A]
To preserve the freshness and verdure of these ringlets by supplying them with moisture, was one of the occupations of Titania's train: thus a fairy in her service is represented as telling Puck—
"I do wander every where,
Swifter than the moones sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen
To dew her orbs upon the green."[343:B]
The general amusements of the tribe, independent of their moon-light dance, are very impressively and characteristically enumerated in the subsequent lines:—
"Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;