munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have
a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet
hay, hath no fellow.39
Tita. I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee thence new nuts.
Bot. I had rather have a handful or two of
dried pease. But, I pray you, let none of your
people stir me: I have an exposition of sleep
come upon me.45
Tita. Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away.
[Exeunt Fairies.]
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle48
Gently entwist; the female ivy so
Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
O! how I love thee; how I dote on thee!
[They sleep.]
Enter Robin Goodfellow.
Obe. [Advancing.] Welcome, good Robin. See'st thou this sweet sight?52
Her dotage now I do begin to pity:
For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
Seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool,
I did upbraid her and fall out with her;56
For she his hairy temples then had rounded
With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;
And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,60
Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her,
And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,64
38 bottle: bundle
55 favours: flowers as gifts
60 orient: lustrous
