SONG VI.
THE FAIRYS FAREWELL.
Farewell rewards and fairies! Good housewives now may say;For now foul sluts in dairies, Do fare as well as they.And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do,Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds six-pence in her shoe?
Lament, lament old abbies, The fairies lost command;They did but change priests babies, But some have changed your land:And all your children stol'n from thence Are now grown puritanes,Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your demaines.
