Queen Mab. COME follow, follow me, You Faery elves that be, Come follow Mab your queen : When mortals are at rest, Through keyholes we do glide; Upon a mushroom-bed Our table-cloth we spread; The brains of nightingales, With unctuous fat of snails, Is meat that's easily chewed: Tails of worms, and marrow of mice, Do make a dish that's wondrous nice. t Mabella Regina. EIA! omnes celeri gradu sequentes, Vos, quotquot Dryadum minutiorum Circum gramineum perambulatis, Reginam comitate vos Mabellam : Conjunctis manibus, choro rotundo, Sacrata saliamus hac in umbra. Quum mortale genus, sopore victum, Boleti caput en! torale nostrum Quantum in luscinia latet cerebri, The grasshopper gnat and fly Grace said, we dance awhile, And so the time beguile : And if the moon doth hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to bed. On tops of dewy grass So nimbly we do pass, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends when we do walk: Oft in the morning may be seen, Where we the night before have been. Percy's Reliques. Bibo. WHEN Bibo thought fit from this world to retreat, As full of champagne as an egg's full of meat, He turned in the boat and to Charon he said ; 'I will be rowed back, for I am not yet dead.' 'Trim the boat and sit quiet,' stern Charon replied, You may have forgot, you were drunk when you died.' Cicada, culices, simulque muscæ Herbæ vertice roscido nitentis Qua nos nocte priore luserimus. F. H. Bibo. CUM Bibo de terris tandem dignatus abire est, Exsilit in cymba, tristemque Charonta moratur; 'Remum inhibe; non sum mortuus, ire nego.' Heus! cave, cymbam agitas,' cui portitor; O bone, nescis Multo prolutum te periisse mero ?' B. Hyperion. BUT one of the whole mammoth-brood still kept Still sat, still snuffed the incense, teeming up Upon the first toll of his parting bell, Or prophesyings of the midnight lamp; And all its curtains of Aurorian clouds Flush'd angerly: while sometimes eagles' wings, |