%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Fairy Queene. / Her invitation to those Elves, / That in the night doe sport themselves, / Of them a just Character here, / Decipher'd is as't shall appeare. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1648-1648 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/16/2018 36064

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R227866 1 The Spanish Gypsies Spanish Gypsies, The The Spanish Gypsies COme follow follow me, / You Fairy Elves that be, Manchester Central Library Blackletter Ballads Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 13 The Fairy Queene. / Her invitation to those Elves, / That in the night doe sport themselves, / Of them a just Character here, / Decipher'd is as't shall appeare. The Fairy Queen. Her invitation to those Elves, That in the night do sport themselves, Of them a just Character here, Deciphered is as it shall appear. 1648-1648 Edw. Wright

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COme follow follow me, You Fairy Elves that be, That trip it on the Green, Come circle me your Queen, Hand in hand wee'l dance a round, For this place is Fairy ground. Upon the dewy grasse, So nimbly we can passe, Your young and tender stalke, Nere bends when we doe walke, Yet in the morne it may be seene, Where we the night before have been, When mortalls ar at rest, And snorting in their nest, Through Key-holes close we slide, Unheard or unespy'd: Over Tables, stooles, and shelves, We trip it with our Fairy Elves. And if the house be foule, Either platter, dish, or bowle, Upstaires we nimbly creep, And finde the sluts asleepe: There we pinch them armes and thighs, None doth heare, nor none espies.
But if the house be swept, And all things cleanly kept, We praise the houshold Maid, And surely she is paid; For 'tis our use before we goe, To leave a Tester in her shooe. Upon a Moshrompe head, Our Table-cloth we spread, The manchet that we eate, Is a graine of Rye or wheat: The pearly drops of dew we drinke, In Acorne cups fill'd to the brinke. The braines of Nightingales, With the unctious dew of Snales, Between two Nutshels stew'd, Is meat that's easily chew'd: The brains of Wrens, the brests of Mice Doth make us feasts of wondrous price The Grashopper, Gnat, and Fly, Our Minstrels playes supply, And with that a while, We doe the time beguile: And when the Moon doth hide her head, The Gloe-worme lights us to our bed. Being the Pastimes and other Slights, Of Will-with-a-wispe, and other mad Sprights.
FINIS. Printed for Edw. Wright in Gilt- spur-street.