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NYMPHIDIA.
When soon he met with Tomalin,One that a valiant knight had been,And to great Oberon of kin: Quoth he, Thou manly fairy,Tell Oberon I come prepar'd,Then bid him stand upon his guard;This hand his baseness shall reward. Let him be ne'er so wary.
Say to him thus, That I defyHis slanders and his infamy,And, as a mortal enemy, Do publickly proclaim him:Withal, that if I had mine own,He should not wear the fairy crown,But with a vengeance should come down; Nor we a king should name him.
This Tomalin could not abide,To hear his sovereign vilify'd,But to the fairy court him hy'd, Full furiously he posted,With every thing Pigwiggen said,How title to the crown he laid,And in what arms he was array'd, And how himself he boasted.
