...crowned been ; Or like the circle where the signs we track, And learned shepherds call 't the Zodiac ; Within one of these rounds was to be seen A hillock rise, where oft the fairy-queen At twilight sate, and did command her elves To pinch those maids that had not swept their...

...pleasant mead, Where fairies often did their measures tread, Which in the meadows made such circlets green, As if with garlands it had crowned been. ******...rounds was to be seen A hillock rise, where oft the Fairy-Queen At twilight sate. & BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS. VOL. I. * T! n . : - ( THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY....

...gives a picture of the kind of scenery to which I allude : • A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread ; Which in the meadows makes...another picture of the same in a poem ascribed to Ben Johnson : By wells and rills in meadows green, We nightly dance our hey-day guise, And to our fairy...

...describes " a pleasant mead, Where fairies often did their measures tread, Which in the meadows made such circles green As if with garlands it had crowned...rounds was to be seen A hillock rise, where oft the fairy-queen At twilight sat." 1 Thus in Olaus Magnus de Gentibus Septentrionalibus: " Similes illii...

...describes " a pleasant mead, Where fairies often did their measures tread, Which in the meadows made such circles green As if with garlands it had crowned been. Within one of these rounds was to he seen A hillock rise, where oft the fairy-queen At twilight sat." 1 Thus in Olaus Magnus de Gentibus...

...allude : " A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread ; Which in the meadows make such circles green As if with garlands it had crowned...wells and rills in meadows green, We nightly dance our hey-dey guise, And to our fairy king and queen We chant our moonlight minstrelsies.'* Indeed, it seems...

...measures tread, Which in the meadows made such circles green As if with garlands it had crowned heen. Within one of these rounds was to be seen A hillock rise, where oft the fairy-queen At twilight sat." 1 Thus in Olaus Magnus de Gentibus Septentrionalibus : " Similes illis...

...which I allude: " A pleasant mead Where fanes often did their measures tread, Which in the meadows make such circles green As if with garlands it had crowned...these rounds was to be seen A hillock rise, where o' the fairy queen At twilight sat." And there is another picture of the same, in a poem ascribed to...

...allude : " A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread ; Which in the meadows make such circles green As if with garlands it had crowned...wells and rills in meadows green, We nightly dance our hey-dcy guise, And to our fairy king and queen We chant our moonlight minstrelsies." Indeed, it seems...

...legendary lore was connected with them. Browne notices them — " A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread, Which in the meadows makes...circles green As if with garlands it had crowned been." Britannia's Pastorals. Cowley said — " Where once such fairies dance, No grass does ever grow ; "...