 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
 | 442 pages
...path, began to dance around." l In the same masque the queen is thus characterised by a satyr — *' This is MAB, the mistress fairy, That doth nightly...they rub not clean their benches,* And with sharper nails remembers When they rake n6t up their embers ; But, if so they chance to feast her, In a shoe... | |
 | Maurice O'Sullivan - 1997 - 240 pages
...Good gentles all, fill your glasses. To Queen Mab, the fairies' midwife, the thrifty hostess. She who pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches; And with sharper nails remembers, When they rake not up the embers. See her face, her lips, do they not make us dream... | |
 | Edward Walford, George W. Redway - 1882 - 366 pages
...gentles all, fill your glasses. To Queen Mab, the fairies' midwife, the thrifty hostess. " She who pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches ; And with sharper nails remembers, When they rake not up the embers." See her face, her lips, do they not make us to... | |
 | 1882 - 366 pages
...gentles all, fill your glasses. To Queen Mab, the fairies' midwife, the thrifty hestess. " She who pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches ; And with sharper nails remembers, When they rake not up the embers." See her face, her lips, do they not make us to... | |
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