Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... Robin Good - fellow , whose pranks are recorded in an old song , and who was sometimes useful and sometimes mischievous . Whether or not he were the fairy - spirit of whom Milton " Tells how the drudging goblin swet , To ern his cream ...
... Robin Good - fellow , whose pranks are recorded in an old song , and who was sometimes useful and sometimes mischievous . Whether or not he were the fairy - spirit of whom Milton " Tells how the drudging goblin swet , To ern his cream ...
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... Robin Good - fellow , a well - known fairy , professes that he had played his pranks from the time of Merlin , who was the contemporary of Arthur . Chaucer uses the word faërie as well for the indi- vidual as for the country or system ...
... Robin Good - fellow , a well - known fairy , professes that he had played his pranks from the time of Merlin , who was the contemporary of Arthur . Chaucer uses the word faërie as well for the indi- vidual as for the country or system ...
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... Robin Good - fellow , in the same play , calls Oberon- " King of shadows , " and in the old song just mentioned— " The king of ghosts and shadows ; " and this mighty monarch asserts of himself , and his subjects- " But we are SPIRITS of ...
... Robin Good - fellow , in the same play , calls Oberon- " King of shadows , " and in the old song just mentioned— " The king of ghosts and shadows ; " and this mighty monarch asserts of himself , and his subjects- " But we are SPIRITS of ...
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... Robin Good - fellow , answers Oberon , who was about to send him on a secret expedition— " I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes . " Again , the same goblin addresses him thus- 66 Fairy king , attend and mark , I do ...
... Robin Good - fellow , answers Oberon , who was about to send him on a secret expedition— " I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes . " Again , the same goblin addresses him thus- 66 Fairy king , attend and mark , I do ...
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... Robin Good - fellow , is the most active and extraordinary fellow of a fairy that we anywhere meet with ; and it is believed we find him nowhere but in our own country , and , peradventure also , only in the south . Spenser , it would ...
... Robin Good - fellow , is the most active and extraordinary fellow of a fairy that we anywhere meet with ; and it is believed we find him nowhere but in our own country , and , peradventure also , only in the south . Spenser , it would ...
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Artour blode child Claia commaund dæmon dance dayes doth Dream drinke elves eyes fair fairies fayre fayries feare feyre forto Gerames Gervase of Tilbury give gode gold grace grete hath heard horne horse Jocastus king Arthur king Oberon knyzt kyng lady laughing lond lord maid marvaile mayde merry Midsummer Night's Dream Mopsus mortal mother never night noble nymphs o'er pinch pray Puck Queen Mab quene quoth Huon quoth Oberon Reginald Scot Robin Good-fellow round ryche ryde sayd schall sche seyde shal shalbe shalt shee shew sing Sir Gawen song speake spirits stede sweet syr Launfal TALE thee ther things Thomas told Tom Thumb unther unto wende whan whyt wold woman wood word wyll wyth