This is MAB, the mistress fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy, And can hurt or help the churning (As she please), without discerning. She that pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches... The History of Sir Thomas Thumb - Page 97by Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1855 - 142 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1899 - 284 pages
...the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies," etc. Romeo and Juliet, i. 4. "This is Mab, the mistress Fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy, She that pinches country wenches." BEN JONSON, The Satyr. junkets. Cream cheese. 103. 104. She... | |
| John Milton - 1900 - 188 pages
...noses as they lie asleep." The next most famous description of her is in Ben Jonson's Satyr : " This is Mab, the mistress Fairy, That doth nightly...they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers Wheu they rake not up their embers." A third description is that in the opening passages... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1900 - 588 pages
...about their circle, while they made many offer* to catch him.) This is Mob, the mistress Fairy, Tliat doth nightly rob the dairy ; And can hurt or help the churning As she please, without discerning. Itt Fai. Pug, you will anon take warning. Sat. She that pinches counti-y wenches, If they rub not clean... | |
| John Milton - 1900 - 174 pages
...Mab. See Romeo and Juliet, I, iv, 54-95, and Shelley's Queen Mab. M. quotes Jonson'a Satyr, beginning: This is Mab, the mistress Fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy. junkets: originally, a kind of cream-cheese (wrapt in rushes, from Italian giunco, a rush), and now... | |
| John Milton - 1900 - 188 pages
...Mab. See Romeo and Juliet, I, iv, 54-95, and Shelley's Queen Mab. M. quotes Jonson'a Satyr, beginning: This Is Mab, the mistress Fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy. junkets: originally, a kind of cream-cheese (wrapt in rushes, from Italian giunco, a rush), and now... | |
| 1901 - 694 pages
...mistress was early at her post, to work or to direct, and to learn the latest pranks of Mab, the Mistriss Fairy, That doth nightly rob the Dairy, And can hurt or help the cherning." she must see that the rooms were kept in spotless order, and every vessel, whether "of wood,... | |
| Ben Jonson - 1903 - 396 pages
...Fairies'; cf. also Ency. Brit. Mab is queen of Fairies in Jonson's masque, The Satyr, 1603 (G.-C. VI, 443): This is Mab, the mistress Fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy, And can hurt or help the cherning, As she please, without discerning. More description of her then follows in a vein very like... | |
| John Milton - 1904 - 208 pages
...This is Mab, the Mistress-Faery, That doth nightly rob the dairy, And can hurt or help the cherning, As she please, without discerning. She that pinches...they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake not up their embers : But if so they chance to feast her, In a shoe... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1904 - 324 pages
...maids white hips Are not more perfect azure." And Ben Jonson's perfect little piece, The Satyr (1603): "She that pinches country wenches If they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake not up their embers . . . This is Mab, the Mistress Faery." And Drayton,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1904 - 356 pages
...maids white hips Are not more perfect azure." And Ben Jonson's perfect little piece, The Satyr (I603): "She that pinches country wenches If they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake not up their embers . . . This is Mab, the Mistress Faery." And Draytpn,... | |
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