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Then we pinch their arms and thighs;None us hears, and none us spies.

   But if the house be swept,   And from uncleanness kept,   We praise the household maid,   And duly she is paid:Every night before we go,We drop a tester in her shoe.

   Then o'er a mushrooms head   Our table-cloth we spread;   A grain of rye or wheat   The diet that we eatPearly drops of dew we drink,In acorn cups fill'd to the brink.

   The grasshopper, gnat, and fly,   Serve for our minstrelsy;   Grace said, we dance awhile,   And so the time beguile:And, if the moon doth hide her head,The glow-worm lights us home to bed.

   O'er tops of dewy grass   So nimbly we do pass,