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 . Through woods, through lakes ; Through bogs, through brakes ;Or else, unseen, with them I go, All in the nick To play some trickAnd frolic it, with ho, ho, ho! Sometimes I meet them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound;And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them if to rideMy back they stride, THE PRANKS OF ROBIN GOODFELLOW. 73. More swift than wind away I go ;Oer hedge and lands,Through
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 . Through woods, through lakes ; Through bogs, through brakes ;Or else, unseen, with them I go, All in the nick To play some trickAnd frolic it, with ho, ho, ho! Sometimes I meet them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound;And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them if to rideMy back they stride, THE PRANKS OF ROBIN GOODFELLOW. 73. More swift than wind away I go ;Oer hedge and lands,Through pools and ponds, I hurry, laughing, ho, ho, ho ! When lads and lasses merry be, With possets and with junkets fine ;Unseen of all the company, I eat their cakes and sip their wine! And, to make sport, I puff and snort,And out the candles I do blow: The maids I kiss, They shriek —who \s this ?I answer nought but ho, ho, ho ! And now and then, the maids to please, At midnight I card up their wool;And while they sleep and take their ease,With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ;I dress their hemp ; I spin their tow ; If any wake And would me take,I wend me laughing, 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
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