64 DIRECT BENEFITS FROM MOTHS. 



Take first tlie fcnst — these dishes gone. 

 We'll 800 the Fairy couit anon. 

 A little miishroome table spred. 

 After short prayers they sot on bread, 

 A moon-parcht gmin of purest wheat, 

 With some small glit'ring gritt, to cate 

 His clioyce bitls with ; then, in a trice. 

 They malce a feast lessc great than nice. 

 Bvit all this while his eye is served. 

 We must not thinke his caro was sterved ; 

 ' But that there was in place to stir 

 His spleen, the chining giashopper, 

 The merry cricket, puling fly, 

 The piping gnat for minstralsy. 

 And now, we must imagine, fii-st. 

 The elves present, to quench his thiret, 

 A pure secd-pcarle of infant dew. 

 Brought and beswectned in a blew 

 And pregnant violet ; which done, 

 His kitling eyes begin to runnc 

 Quite through the table, where lie spies 

 Tlie homes of paperie butterflies, 

 Of which he catcs, and tastes a little 

 Of that we call the cuckocs spittle ; 

 A little fu!i-ball pudding stands 

 Uy, yet not blessed by his hands. 

 That was too coorse ; but then, forthwith 

 He ventures boldly on the pith 

 Of sugicd rush, and eates the saggo 

 And well bestruttod bee's sweet baggc ; 

 Gladding his pallat with some store 

 Of emits eggs — what we'd he more ? 

 But beards of mice, a newt's stew'd thigh, 

 A bloated carcnig and a flie. 



