...knavish sprite, Call'd Robin-Goodfellow : Are you not he, That frights the maidens of the villag'ry ; Skim milk ; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless huswife churn ; And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at...

...knavish sprite, Call'd Robin Good-fellow: are you not he, That fright the maidens of the villag'ry ; Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, •...bootless make the breathless housewife churn; And sometime make the drink to bear no barm; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm? Those that...

...house at midnight — this " white bread, and bread and milk, was his standing fee." STEEVENS. Line 37. Skim milk ; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless houswife churn.] The sense of these lines is confused. Are not ymt he, says the fairy, that fright...

...knavish sprite, Call'd Robin Good-fellow: are you not he, That fright the maidens of the villagery; Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern And bootless make the breathless housewife churn; And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;° Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm ? Those...

...ought to have written— frights, skinu, labours, makes, and misleads. The other, however, being the Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;8 And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ;7 Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?...

...ought to have written— ^frights, skims, labours, makes, and misleads. The other, however, being the Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;6 And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;7 Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?...

...harm ? more common usage, and that which he has preferred, I have corrected the former word. Malone. 6 Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the bj'eathless housewife churn ;] The sense of these lines is confused. Are not you he, (says the fairy,)...

...knavish sprite, Call'd Robin Good-fellow : are you not he, That fright the maidens of the villagery; Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, And...breathless housewife churn; And sometimes make the drink to bear no barm; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm ? Those that Hobgoblin call...

...knavish sprite, Call'd Robin Good-fellow : are you not be, That fright the maidens of the villagcry ; Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern). And bootless make the breathless housewife churn; And sometime make the drink to bear an barm§; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm : Those...

...Night's Dream, aaks Puck, *<,—..— —Art thou not he, That frights the maidens of the villagYy; Skim milk; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn." And Dr. Grey informs us, that Scot, in his Discovery of Witchcraft, observes, " that when the country people...