Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your domains. At morning and at evening both, When Tom came home from labor, Witness those rings and roundelays And later, James came in, By which we note the fairies Their dances were procession: A tell-tale in their company UNKNOWN. Their mirth, was punished sure; It was a just and Christian deed, To pinch such black and blue: O, how the commonwealth doth need Such justices as you! UNKNOWN. [Before 1649] ROBIN GOODFELLOW. FROM Oberon, in fairy-land, The king of ghosts and shadows there, Mad Robin I, at his command, Am sent to view the night-sports here. What revel rout Is kept about, In every corner where I go, I will o'ersee, And merry be, And make good sport, with ho, ho, ho! 21 1 mark their gloze, And it disclose UNKNOWN. [Before 1649-] EDOM O' GORDON. IT fell about the Martinmas, "We maun draw to a hauld. "And whatna hauld sall we draw to, My merry men and me? We will gae to the house of the Rodes, To see that fair ladye." The lady stood on her castle wa', Beheld baith dale and down; To them whom they have wronged so: There she was aware of a host of men When I have done I get me gone, And leave them scolding, ho, ho, Came riding towards the town. |