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" A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those superstitious times, grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. "
The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior - Page 66
by Robert Burton - 1821
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 1

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...two foot long. A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hol'goblins, and Rotin Goodftllou's, that would, in those superstitious times, grind corn...in former ages, and have been often seen and heard. "Tholosanuä calls them Trullos and Getnlos, and saith that in his dayes they were common in many places...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...: — "A bigger kind there is of them (fairies), called with us Hobgoblins, and Robin Good fellows, that would in those superstitious times, grind corn...drudgery work. They would mend old Irons in those /Eolian Isles of Lypara, in former ages, and have been often seen and heard. Tholosanus calls them...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 612 pages
...some two foot long. A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those superstitious times, grind corn...drudgery work. They would mend old irons in those jEolian isles of Lipara, in former ages, and have been often seen and heard. e Tholosanus calls them...
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The Fairy Mythology, Volume 2

Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 392 pages
...foot long," says, " A bigger kind there is of them called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those superstitious times, grind corn...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work." And again : " Some put our Fairies into this rank (that of terrestrial devils), which have been in...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 1

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1837 - 644 pages
...some two feet long. A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those superstitious times, grind corn...drudgery work. They would mend old irons in those , Kolinii isles of Lipara, in former ages, and have been often seen and heard. * Tholosanus calls them...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy ...: To which is Prefixed, a Satyricall Preface ...

Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 pages
...some two foot long. A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those superstitious times, grind corn...drudgery work. They would mend old irons in those ./Eolian isles of Lipara, in former ages, and have been often seen and heard. eTholosanus calls them...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...with us Hobgoblins, and Knbin Good fellows, that would in those superstitious times, grind corn for it mess of milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. They would mead old Irons in those liiiim Isles of l.ypara, in former ages, and have been often seen and heard....
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Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...Good fellows, thai would in those superstitious times, цгин! corn for a mess of milk, cut woo<l, or do any manner of drudgery work. They would mend old Irons in those .Kolian l-Ies of by pira, ni former ases, and have been often seen and heard. Tholosanils calls them...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 34-36

Languages, Modern - 1863 - 1460 pages
...and neeze, and swear A merrier hour was never wiisted there. — But room, Faery, he comes Oberon. that would in those superstitious times, grind corn...drudgery work. They would mend old irons in those Aeolian isles of Lipara, in former ages, and have been often seen and heard. Tholosanus culls them...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms ...

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1850 - 728 pages
...called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would in those superstitious tunes grind com the delight of the learned, the solace of the indolent, and the refuge of the uninformed. It passed jEolian isles of Lipari, in former ages, and have been often seen and heard. "Tholosanus calls them...
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