3 Fay. You shall haue most daintie Instruments, Sir.
Mop. I pray you, what might I call you?
1 Fay. My name is Penny.
Mop. I am sorry I cannot purse you.
Fris. I pray you sir what might I call you?
2 Fay. My name is Cricket.[117]
Fris. I would I were a chimney for your sake.
Io. I pray you, you prettie little fellow, whats your name?
3 Fay. My name is little, little Pricke.
Io. Little, little Pricke? o you are a daungerous Fayrie, and fright all little wenches in the country out of their beds. I care not whose hand I were in, so I were out of yours.
1 Fay. I do come about the coppes
Leaping
vpon flowers toppes;
Then
I get vpon a Flie,
Shee
carries me aboue the skie,
And
trip and goe.
2 Fay. When a deaw drop falleth downe
And
doth light vpon my crowne,
Then
I shake my head and skip
And
about I trip.
3 Fay. When I feele a girle a sleepe
Vnderneath
her frock I peepe.
There
to sport, and there I play,
Then
I byte her like a flea;
And
about I skip.
Io. I, I thought where I should haue you.
1 Fay. Wilt please you daunce, sir.
Io. Indeed, sir, I cannot handle my legges.
2 Fay. O you must needs daunce and sing,
Which if you refuse to doe
We will pinch you blacke and blew;
And about we goe.
They all daunce in a ring and sing, as followeth.
Round about, round about, in a fine ring
a,
Thus we daunce, thus we daunce, and thus
we sing a:
Trip and go, too and fro, ouer this Greene
a,
All about, in and out, for our braue Queene
a.
Round about, round about, in a fine Ring
a,
Thus we daunce, thus we daunce, and thus
we sing a:
Trip and go, too and fro, ouer this Greene
a,
All about, in and out, for our braue Queene
a.
We haue daunc’t round about in a
fine Ring a,
We haue daunc’t lustily and thus
we sing a;
All about, in and out, ouer this Greene
a,
Too and fro, trip and go, to our braue
Queene a.
Actus Tertius.
(SCENE I.)
Enter Appollo and three Charites.
1 Cha. No, No, great Phoebus; this your silence tends To hide your griefe from knowledge of your friends, Who, if they knew the cause in each respect, Would shewe their utmost skill to cure th’effect:
Ap. Good Ladyes, your conceites in iudgement
erre:
Because you see me dumpish, you referre
The reason to some secret griefe of mine:
But you haue seene me melancholy many a time:
Perhaps it is the glowing weather now
That makes me seeme so ill at ease to you.