 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 378 pages
...cleanlinesse Findes sixpence in her shooe?" In a poem in Poole's English Parnassus, Mab is spoken of as " She that pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches; And with sharper nails remembers, When they rake not up the embers;" and in a song in the same volume we find these... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1884 - 362 pages
...Л/оЛ, the mietrets fairy. That doth nightly rob the dairy. And cnn hurt or help the churning As ehe please, without discerning; She that pinches country wenches If they rub not clean their benches, But if so they chance to feast her, In a shoe she drops a tester. Бея Janson. If ye will with ¿fab... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1884 - 580 pages
...the path, began to dance around/' In the same masque the queen is thus characterized by a satyr : " This is Mab, the mistress fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy, And can help or hurt the cherning As she please, without discerning," etc. has invested Queen Mab with mischievous... | |
 | 1882 - 392 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... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1886 - 256 pages
...emperor was Oberon, and his royal consort and empress was the sweet but mischeivous Mab : — " There is Mab, the mistress fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy ; And can help or hurt the churning As she please without discerning. This is she that empties cradles, Takes... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1887 - 504 pages
...Satyr. " Not so nimbly as your feet. When about the creambowls sweet You and all the elves do meet. This is Mab, the mistress fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy : She can start our franklins' daughters In their sleep with shrieks and laughters, And on sweet St.... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 258 pages
...company. He in the next line is similarly used. Cf. Ben Jonson's description of Mab in The Satyr: " She that pinches country wenches If they rub not clean their benches," etc. See also Drayton's Nymphidia : " These make our girls their sluttery rue By pinching them both... | |
 | C. J. T. - 1890 - 222 pages
...dance around."—(Works, v. 201.) In the same masque the queen is thus characterised by a satyr :— " This is Mab, the mistress fairy, That doth nightly...(As she please) without discerning. She that pinches oouutry-wenches If they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1890 - 452 pages
...Ike FAIRIES, skipped in, out, and about their circle, while they made many offers to catch at him. This is Mab, the mistress Fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy, And can hurt or help the chernirig, As she please, without discerning. 1 I'ai. Pug^ you will anon take warning ? Sat. She that... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1890 - 452 pages
...the FAIRIES, skipped in, out, and about their circle, while they made many offers to catch at him. This is Mab, the mistress Fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy, And can hurt or help the cherning, As she please, without discerning. 1 Fat. Pug, you will anon take warning? Sat. She that... | |
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