In the third act we are introduced to Puck-hairy, who laments his lot as the familiar of the malignant witch in whose service he has now to ’firk it like a goblin’ about the woods.  Meanwhile Karol meets Douce in the dress of Earine, who, however, runs off on the approach of Aeglamour.  The latter fancies she is the ghost of his drowned love, and falls into a ‘superstitious commendation’ of her.  His delusions are conceived in a vein no less happy and more distinctly poetical than those of Amyntas.

    But shee, as chaste as was her name, Earine,
    Dy’d undeflowr’d:  and now her sweet soule hovers,
    Here, in the Aire, above us; and doth haste
    To get up to the Moone, and Mercury;
    And whisper Venus in her Orbe; then spring
    Up to old Saturne, and come downe by Mars,
    Consulting Jupiter; and seate her selfe
    Just in the midst with Phoebus, tempring all
    The jarring Spheeres, and giving to the World
    Againe, his first and tunefull planetting! 
    O’ what an age will here be of new concords! 
    Delightfull harmonie! to rock old Sages,
    Twice infants, in the Cradle o’ Speculation,
    And throw a silence upon all the creatures!... 
    The loudest Seas, and most enraged Windes
    Shall lose their clangor; Tempest shall grow hoarse;
    Loud Thunder dumbe; and every speece of storme
    Laid in the lap of listning Nature, husht,
    To heare the changed chime of this eighth spheere! (III. ii.)

After this Lionel appears in search of Karol, who is in requisition for the distressed Amie.  They are about to go off together when Maudlin again appears in the shape of Marian, with the news that Amie is recovered and their presence no longer required.  At this moment, however, Robin appears, and suspecting the witch, who tries to escape, seizes her by the girdle and runs off the stage with her.  The girdle breaks, and Robin returns with it in his hand, followed by the witch in her own shape.  Robin and the shepherds go off with the prize, while Maudlin summons Puck to her aid and sets to plotting revenge.  Lorel also appears for the purpose of again addressing himself to his imprisoned mistress, and, if necessary, putting his mother’s precepts into practice.  With the words of the witch: 

              Gang thy gait, and try
    Thy turnes with better luck, or hang thy sel’;

the fragment breaks off abruptly.  From the Argument prefixed to Act III we know that Lorel’s purpose with Earine was interrupted by the entrance of Clarion and Aeglamour, and her discovery was only prevented by a sudden mist called up by Maudlin.  The witch then set about the recovery of her girdle, was tracked by the huntsmen as she wove her spells, but escaped by the help of her goblin and through the over-eagerness of her pursuers.