—'Whence do they come? and with what errand charged?
'Belong they to the fortune-telling tribe
'Who pitch their tents under the green-wood tree?
'Or Strollers are they,[637] furnished to enact
'Fair Rosamond,[IH] and the Children of the Wood,[II]
'And, by that whiskered tabby's aid, set forth
'The lucky venture of sage Whittington,[IJ]
'When the next village hears the show announced
'By blast of trumpet?' Plenteous was the growth
Of such conjectures, overheard, or seen