Yea, I admire to see some natures further sundered, 13 What multitude of notions Doth perturb my pate, How the heavens are preserved, In moisture, light, and heat! If one spirit sits the outmost circle turning, 14 Fain also would I By considering prove this, What that which you call love is: Whether it be a folly Or a melancholy, Or some heroic thing! Fain I'd have it proved, by one whom love hath wounded, And fully upon one his desire hath founded, Whom nothing else could please though the world were rounded. Hallo, my fancy, whither wilt thou go? 15 To know this world's centre, Height, depth, breadth, and length, To search the hid attractions Of magnetic actions, And adamantic strength. Fain would I know, if in some lofty mountain, 16 Fain would I have it tried By none can be denied; If in this bulk of nature, There be voids less or greater, Or all remains complete? go? Fain would I know if beasts have any reason; 17 Hallo, my fancy, hallo, Stay, stay at home with me, It is too much for thee. Stay, stay at home with me; leave off thy lofty soaring; Stay thou at home with me, and on thy books be poring; For he that goes abroad, lays little up in storing: Thou 'rt welcome home, my fancy, welcome home to me. 'Strange alterations which at this time be, THE FAIRY QUEEN. 1 Come, follow, follow me, You, fairy elves that be; Which circle on the green, 2 3 4 Come, follow Mab, your queen. When mortals are at rest, Through keyholes we do glide; And if the house be foul There we pinch their arms and thighs; But if the house be swept, And from uncleanness kept, For we use, before we go, 5 Upon a mushroom's head 6 The brains of nightingales, 7 With unctuous fat of snails, Between two cockles stewed, Is meat that's easily chewed; Tails of worms, and marrow of mice, Do make a dish that's wondrous nice. The grasshopper, gnat, and fly, And if the moon doth hide her head, 8 On tops of dewy grass So nimbly do we pass, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends when we do walk; |