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NYMPHIDIA.
"Twixt head and foot, from point to point,He told the arming of each joint,In every piece how neat and quaint; For Tomalin could do it:How fair he sat, how sure he rid;As of the courser he bestrid,How manag'd, and how well he did. The king, which listen'd to it,
Quoth he, Go, Tomalin, with speed,Provide me arms, provide my steed,And every thing that I shall need, By thee I will be guided:To strait account call thou thy wit,See there be wanting not a whit,In every thing see thou me fit, Just as my foe's provided.
Soon flew this news through fairy-land,Which gave queen Mab to understandThe combate that was then in hand Betwixt those men so mighty:Which greatly she began to rue,Perceiving that all fairy knewThe first occasion from her grew Of these affairs so weighty.
