TALE VIII.
NYMPHIDIA: THE COURT OF FAIRY.
Old Chaucer doth of Topas tell,Mad Rabelais of Pantagruel,A latter third of Dowsabel, With such poor trifles playing:Others the like have labour'd at,Some of this thing, and some of that,And many of they know not what, But that they must be saying.
Another sort there be, that willBe talking of the fairies still,Nor ever' can they have their fill As they were wedded to them:No tales of them their thirst can slake,So much delight therein they take,And some strange thing they fain would make, Knew they the way to do them.
