says Belarius at the first sight of Imogen, as Fidele.
They were humanely attentive to the youthful dead. Thus Guiderius at the funeral of the above lady—
“With female fairies will his tomb be haunted.”
Or, as in the pathetic dirge of Collins on the same occasion:—
“No wither’d witch shall here be seen,
No goblins lead their nightly crew;
The female fays shall haunt the green,
And dress the grave with pearly dew.”
This amiable quality is, likewise, thus beautifully alluded to by the same poet:—
“By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.”