...Mab the junkets eat. She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl...night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And,...

...All this is precisely the conduct of Robin Good-fellow, described so charmingly by Milton : " Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And...

...Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led : Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn Which ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber-fiend."...

.... To earn the cream.bowl, duly set1 When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, 9 His shadowy tlail had thrash'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend; And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire, his airy strength; And, crop-full, out of...

...of the Lar Familiaris of the ancients. 1 — how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn the cream- bowl, duly set ! When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy tlail had tbratrii'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber...

...Mab the junkets ate ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl...duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shad'wy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the...

...fairy Mab the junkets eat, She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Telle unfold. PART OF THE KNlGHTES TALE. I trowe men wolde...I foryetu? to teilen the dispence Of Theseus, tha thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd...

...Land. Milton's Description of Browny jn his L'Allegro is fine: — Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To earn his creambowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath threshed the Corn That ten day labourers could not end j Then lays him down the lubbar fiend,...

...ate : She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drndging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him...

...descriptive poems in the English language, ' Tells how the drudging Goblin sweat ' To earn his creum bowl duly set, ' When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, ' His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn ' That ten day labourers could not end: ' Then lies him down the lubbard fiend,...