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 . f Popish Impostures, says : And if that the bowle of curds and creame were not duly set out for Robin Goodfellow, thefriar, and Sisse the dairy-maid, why then either the pottage was burnt next day in the pot, orthe cheeses would not curdle, or the butter would not come, or the ale in the fat [vat] neverwould have good head. A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. 29 Misleads night-wanderers, laughing at their harm ?Those that Hobgobl
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 . f Popish Impostures, says : And if that the bowle of curds and creame were not duly set out for Robin Goodfellow, thefriar, and Sisse the dairy-maid, why then either the pottage was burnt next day in the pot, orthe cheeses would not curdle, or the butter would not come, or the ale in the fat [vat] neverwould have good head. A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. 29 Misleads night-wanderers, laughing at their harm ?Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet buck,You do their work, and they shall have good not you he ? Puck. Fairy, thou speakst aright; I am that merry wanderer of the jest to Oberon, and make him smile,When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,Neighing in likeness of a filly foal :And sometimes lurk I in a gossips bowl,In very likeness of a roasted crab ; 2And, when she drinks, against her lips I bob,And on her withered dew-lapa pour the wisest aunt11 telling the saddest tale,Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me ;Then slip I from [behind], down topples she,. And [rails or] cries, and falls into a cough ; And then the whole quire4 hold their hips, and laugh. And waxen in their mirth, and neeze,5 and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there. — But room, Fairy: here comes Oberon. Fairy. And here my mistress. — Would that he were gone ! 1 Chatting woman. - Crab-apple. 3 Neck. 4 Company. * The wisest aunt —The most serious old woman. 5 Sneeze. 30 SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG FOLK. EnterOberon, from one side, with his train, and Titania, from the other, with hers. Oberon. Ill met by moonlight, proud What, jealous Oberon ! Fairies, skip have forsworn his bed and company. Then, turning to Obe*ron, Titania chides him for intruding upon her and herfairies, and interrupting their sports. You well know, she says, — [That] never, since the middl
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