Edwin, I wis, a gentle youth, Endow'd with courage, fenfe and truth, His mountain back mote well be faid, Yet, fpite of all that Nature did He felt the charms of Edith's eyes, But one Sir Topaz dress'd with art; Edwin, if right I read my fong, 'Twas near an old enchanted court, His heart was drear, his hope was crofs'd, 'Twas late, 'twas far, the path was loft That reach'd the neighbour-town; With weary steps he quits the fhades, But fcant he lays him on the floor, And trembling rocks the ground: And 'Tis well,' the gallant cries again; We fairies never injure men • Who dare to tell us true. • Exalt thy love-dejected heart, ◄ Be mine the task, or ere we part, » To make thee grief resign : Now take the pleasure of thy chaunce; • Whilft I with Mab, my partner, daunce, Be little Mable thine.' He spoke, and all a fudden there The monarch leads the queen: The reft their fairy partners-found; The dauncing paft, the board was laid, Withouten hands the dishes fly," But now, to please the fairy king, Some wind and tumble like an ape, Till one at laft, that Rebin hight, Has bent him up aloof; And And full againft the beam he flung, From thence, Reverse my charm,' he cries, • And let it fairly now fuffice The gambol has been fhown." But Oberon answers with a smile, Here ended all the phantom-play; The whirling wind that bore the crowd He seems a dauncing as he walksayaklara And |