Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . ughing, ho, ho, ho! When any need to borrow aught, We lend them what they do require :And for the use demand we nought ;Our own is all we do desire. If to repay They do delay,Abroad amongst them then I go, And night by night I them affright,With pinchings, dreams, and ho, ho, ho! 74 SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG FOLK. When lazy queans have nought to do, Rut study how to cog and lie ;To make debate and mischief tooTwixt one
Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . ughing, ho, ho, ho! When any need to borrow aught, We lend them what they do require :And for the use demand we nought ;Our own is all we do desire. If to repay They do delay,Abroad amongst them then I go, And night by night I them affright,With pinchings, dreams, and ho, ho, ho! 74 SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG FOLK. When lazy queans have nought to do, Rut study how to cog and lie ;To make debate and mischief tooTwixt one another secretly : I mark their gloze And it discloseTo them whom they have wronged so: When I have done, I get me gone,And leave them scolding, ho, ho, ho! When men do traps and engines set In loopholes, where the vermin creep,Who from their folds and houses get Their ducks and geese and lambs and sheep, I spy the gin, And enter in,And seem a vermin taken so ; But when they there Approach me near,I leap out laughing, ho, ho, ho ! By wells and rills, in meadows green,We nightly dance our heyday guise ; And to our fairy king and queen We chant our moonlight When larks gin sing, Away we fling ;And babes new-born steal as we go And elf in bed We leave instead,And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho! THE FRANKS OF ROBIN GOODFELLOW. 75 From hag-bred Merlins time have IThus nightly revelled to and fro ;And for my pranks men call me byThe name of Robin , ghosts and sprites,Who haunt the nights,The hags and goblins do me know:And beldames oldMy feats have told,So vale,1 vale ; ho, ho, ho ! 1 Farewell.
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