The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, THURSDAY: OR, THE SPELL. 120 HOBNELIA. 5 HOBNELIA, seated in a dreary vale, And turn me thrice around, around, around. 10 Ver. 8.] Dight, or bedight, from the Saxon word Dightan, which signifies to set in order. 'When first the year I heard the cuckoo sing, 15 And call with welcome note the budding spring, I straightway set a running with such haste, Deborah that won the smock scarce ran so fast; Till spent for lack of breath, quite weary grown, Upon a rising bank I sat adown, 20 Then doff'd my shoe; and, by my troth, I swear, [ground, With my sharp heel I three times mark the And turn me thrice around, around, around. 26 30 At eve last midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the field a bag of hempseed brought; I scatter'd round the seed on every side, And three times in a trembling accent cried, "This hempseed with my virgin hand I sow, Who shall my true-love be, the crop shall mow." I straight look'd back, and if my eyes speak truth, With his keen scythe behind me came the youth. With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. 36 40 Ver. 21.] Doff, and don, contracted from the words do off, and do on. 45 See, Lubberkin! each bird his partner take, And turn me thrice around, around, around. 50 And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread: Oh! may this wondrous omen lucky prove; [ground, With my sharp heel I three times mark the And turn me thrice around, around, around. 60 65 With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. 'As peasecods once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to see One that was closely fill'd with three times three, Which when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, 71 And o'er the door the spell in secret laid; Ver. 64.] -εγω 8 επι Δελφιδι δαφναν Αιθω χ' ως αυτα λακεει μεγα καππυρίσασα, Theoc. Ver. 66.] Daphnis me malus urit, ego hanc in Daphnide. |