wner, and the owner it.
The several chairs of order look you scour
With juice of balm and every precious flower: 60
Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,
With loyal blazon, evermore be blest!
And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,
Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:
Th' expressure that it bears, green let it be, 65
More fertile-fresh than all the field to see;
And _Honi soit qui mal y pense_ write
In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white;
Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee: 70
Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
Away; disperse: but till 'tis one o'clock,
Our dance of custom round about the oak
Of Herne the hunter, let us not forget.

_Evans._ Pray you, lock hand in hand; yourselves in order set; 75
And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be,
To guide our measure round about the tree.--
But, stay; I smell a man of middle-earth.

_Fal._ Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he
transform me to a piece of cheese! 80

_Pist._ Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.

_Quick._ With trial-fire touch me his finger-end:
If he be chaste, the flame will back descend,
And turn him to no pain; but if he start,
It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. 85

_Pist._ A trial, come.

_Evans._ Come, will this wood take fire?

[_They burn him with their tapers._

_Fal._ Oh, Oh, Oh!

_Quick._ Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!
About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme;
And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time. 90

SONG.

Fie on sinful fantasy!
Fie on lust and luxury!
Lust is but a bloody fire,
Kindled with unchaste desire,
Fed in heart, whose flames aspire, 95
As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
Pinch him, fairies, mutually;
Pinch him for his villany;
Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,
Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out. 100

_During this song they pinch FALSTAFF. DOCTOR CAIUS comes
one way, and steals away a boy in green; SLENDER another
way, and takes off a boy in white; and FENTON comes, and_
_steals away Mrs ANNE PAGE. A noise of hunting is heard
within. All the Fairies run away. FALSTAFF pulls off his
buck's head, and r