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The rest their faerie partners found,
And Mable trimly tript the ground
With Edwin of the green.

The dauncing past, the hoard was laid,
And siker such a feast was made
As heart and lip desire;
Withouten hands the dishes fly,
The glasses with a wash come nigh,
And with a wish retire.

But now to please the faerie king,
Full every deal they laugh and sing,
And antick feats devise;
Some wind and tumble like an ape,
And other-some transmute their shape
In Edwin's wondering eyes.

Till one at last that Robin hight,
Renown'd for pinching maids by night,
Has hent him up aloof;
And full against the beam he flung,
Where by the back the youth he hung
To spraul unneath the roof.

From thence, 'Reverse my charm,' he cries,
'And let it fairly now suffice
The gambol has been shown,'
But Oberon answers with a smile,
Content thee, Edwin, for a while,
The vantage is thine own.