"With female fairies will his tomb be haunted

And worms will not come to thee."

I agree with Steevens in reading him for 'thee.'


"Yea and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none,

To winter-ground thy corse."

"To winter-ground a plant," says Steevens, "is to protect it from the inclemency of the winter-season by straw, dung, etc., laid over it." This seems decisive; otherwise the mention of 'furr'd moss' would lead me to read, with Warburton, 'winter-gown.'


"Come on, away; apart upon our knees."

A line riming with this is evidently lost.