172 SHAKESPEARE'S GARDEN 
Quin. At the duke’s oak we meet. 
I. ii. ii3. 
The cowslips tall her pensioners be: 
In their gold coats spots you see ; 
Those be rubies, fairy favours, 
In those freckles live their savours: 
I must go seek some dew-drops here, 
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear. 
Farewell, thou lob of spirits ; I’ll be gone : 
Our queen and all her elves come here anon. 
II. i. 10. 
And jealous Oberon would have the child 
Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild ; 
But she perforce withholds the loved boy, 
Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy: 
And now they never meet in grove or green, 
By fountain clear, or spangled star-light sheen, 
But they do square, that all their elves for fear 
Creep into acorn cups and hide them there. 
II. i. 24. 
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, 
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal: 
And sometime lurk I in a gossip’s bowl, 
In very likeness of a roasted crab. 
II. i. 45 . 
Tita. Then, I must be thy lady : but I know 
When thou has stol’n away from fairy land, 
And in the shape of Corin sat all day, 
Playing on pipes of corn and versing love 
To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here ? 
II. i. 64. 
And never, since the middle summer’s spring, 
Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead, 
By paved fountain or by rushy brook. 
II. i. 82. 
The ploughman lost his sweat; and the green corn 
Hath rotted ere his youth attain’d a beard. 
II. i. 94. 
