vnfold,
Which lye from others reading, 20
My actiue Muse to light shall bring,
The court of that proud Fayry King,
And tell there, of the Reuelling,
_Ioue_ prosper my proceeding.

And thou NIMPHIDIA gentle F_ay_,
Which meeting me vpon the way,
These secrets didst to me bewray,
Which now I am in telling:
My pretty light fantastick mayde,
I here inuoke thee to my ayde, 30
That I may speake what thou hast sayd,
In numbers smoothly swelling.

This Pallace standeth in the Ayre,
By Nigromancie placed there,
That it no Tempests needs to feare,
Which way so ere it blow it.
And somewhat Southward tow'rd the Noone,
Whence lyes a way vp to the Moone,
And thence the _Fayrie_ can as soone
Passe to the earth below it. 40

The Walls of Spiders legs are made,
Well mortized and finely layd,
He was the master of his Trade
It curiously that builded:
The Windowes of the eyes of Cats,
And for the Roofe, instead of Slats,
Is couer'd with the skinns of Batts,
With Mooneshine that are guilded.

Hence _Oberon_ him sport to make,
(Their rest when weary mortalls take) 50
And none but onely _Fayries_ wake,
Desendeth for his pleasure.
And _Mab_ his meerry Queene by night
Bestrids young Folks that lye vpright,
(In elder Times the _Mare_ that hight)
Which plagues them out of measure.

Hence Shaddowes, seeming Idle shapes,
Of little frisking Elues and Apes,
To Earth doe make their wanton skapes,
As hope of pastime hasts them: 60
Which maydes think on the Hearth they see,
When Fyers well nere consumed be,
Their daunsing Hayes by two and three,
Iust as their Fancy casts them.

These make our Girles their sluttery rue,
By pinching them both blacke and blew,
And put a penny in their shue,
The house for cleanely sweeping:
And in their courses make that Round,
In Meadowes, and in Marshes found, 70
Of them so call'd the _Fayrie_ ground,
Of which they haue the keeping.

Thus when a Childe haps to be gott,
Which after prooues an Ideott,
When Folke perceiue it thriueth not,
The fault there