...beautiful reason is assigned by Fletcher for the fays frequenting streams and fountains : He tells us of A virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed Fairies dance their rounds, By the pale moon-ehine, dipping oftentimes Their stolen children, so to make them free From dying flesh and dull...

...scenes consecrated, by the only true pastoral poetry we have krown, to Contemplation and Repose. "The virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed...fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine." For in the love of those persons there seemed a purity and innocence that suited well their youth and...

...after night-fall. Shakespeare's elves, it will be remembered, met — And Fletcher speaks of — " A virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds." The "green sour ringlets," frequently found on pasture land, are believed to be made by them ; and...

...of mutual chaste embraces, And ceremonious tying of our souls. For to that holy wood is consecrate A virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed...their rounds By the pale moonshine, dipping oftentimes From dying flesh and dull mortality. By this fair fount hath many a shepherd sworn, And given away...

...mortals, for which purpose also they stole the children of earthly parents, as stated in the next article. This kind of necessity is assigned as the reason for...'Tamlane:'— " A virtuous well, about whose flowery bunks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine, dipping oftentimes Their...

...might have placed under the care of his " Holy Shepherdess" — forms that might have reclined by "The Virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed...fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine." For in the love of those persons there seemed a purity and innocence that suited well their youth and...

...childhood come back to memory, and, for a time, we deem this fairy-like lake amid the solemn woods as one " About whose flowery banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds, By the pale moonshine." JULY 30TH. THE DOE OR SHARD BONE BEETLE.—(Geotropes ttercorariits.) " At eve the beetle boometh Athwart...

...might have placed under the care of Ms " Holy Shepherdess " — forms that might have reclined by " The virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed...fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine." For in the love of those persons there seemed a purity and innocence that suited well their youth and...

...have placed under the care of his " Holy Shepherdess, " — forms that might have reclined by — "The virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed...fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine. For in the love of those persons there seemed a purity and innocence that suited well their youth and...

...of mutual chaste embraces, And ceremonious tying of our souls ; For to that holy wood is consecrate A Virtuous Well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds 20 By the pale moon-shine, dipping oftentimes Their stolen children, so to make them free From dying...