So nimbly we do passe,

The young and tender stalk

Ne’er bends when we do walk;

Yet in the morning may be seene

Where we the night before have beene.

Anonymous, about the year 1600.

THE MERRY PRANKS OF ROBIN GOOD-FELLOW.

From Oberon, in fairy land,

The king of ghosts and shadowes there,

Mad Robin, I, at his command,