Of the fairest flow’rs of spring,

When the wild bee wanders humming

Like a blessed fairy thing.


Transcriber’s Notes:

Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Obvious type-setting and punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals available for preparation of the eBook.

page 171, Or Cythereas breath; ==> Or [Cytherea’s] breath;

page 171, pearled Acturi of the ==> pearled [Arcturi] of the

page 172, the same harrassed air ==> the same [harassed] air

page 180, pointless harrangues “nay, ==> pointless [harangues] “nay,