But thou sweet nymph! proclaimed our faery queen
With what obeisance meet
Thy presence shall we greet.”
—Coleridge.
“In olde dayes of the King Artour
Of which that Bretons speken gret honour,
All was this lond fulfilled of faerie;
The Elf-quene, with hire joly compagnie,
Danced ful oft in many a grene mede,
This was the old opinion as I rede;