I recommend it to the queue of Fary,

Eternally into her court to tarry

In wilderness amang the holtis hair.

LINDSAY'S Works, 1592, p. 222.

Chaucer also agrees, in this particular, with our romancer:

In his sadel he clombe anon,

And priked over stile and ston,

An elf quene for to espie;

Til he so long had riden and gone

That he fond in a privie wone