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What is Gwyn the son of Nudd, king of fairie, the ruler of the Tylwyth Teg, or family of beauty, who till the day of doom fights on every first day of May, the great feast of the sun among the Celtic peoples, with Gwythyr, for the fair Cordelia, the daughter of Lear?
Grosart, the learned editor of Herrick, who confesses that he can make nothing of the allusion in the following passage from The Fairie Temple: "The saint to which the most he prayes, And offers Incense Nights and Dayes, The Lady of the Lobster is Whose foot-pace he doth stroak and kiss."
In the mediaeval romance of "King Orfeo" fairyland has been substituted for the classical Hades. King James, in his "Daemonologie," adopts a fourfold classification of devils, one of which he names "Phairie," and co-ordinates with the incubus. The name of the devil supposed to preside at the witches' sabbaths is sometimes given as Hecat, Diana, Sybilla; sometimes Queen of Elfame, or Fairie.
Bote in a Mayes mornynge, on Malverne hulles, Me byfel a ferly, of fairie me thoughte. I was wery, forwandred, and went me to reste Undur a brod banke, bi a bourne side; And as I lay and lened, and loked on the watres, I slumbred in a slepyng -hit swyed so murie.... Wyclif, as a man, is by far the most powerful English figure of the fourteenth century.
"I have heard of spirits walking with aerial bodies, and have been wondered at by others; but I must only wonder at myself, for if they be not mad, I'me come to my own buriall." SHIRLEY's Witty Fairie One Everybody has heard of the fate of Don Juan, the famous libertine of Seville, who for his sins against the fair sex and other minor peccadilloes was hurried away to the infernal regions.
These two will guide me on the rope. Cou. You meane to dance, then? De. Yes, the Canaries, but with quicker tyme Then you, I hope, can follow: thus I begin. Cou. What a heathen Coward's this? how the rogue tripps like a fairie to the towne with 'em! He has been a footman, sure; I have not aire enough to overtake him, and twill be darke presently.
She must have seen Eve properly. But my luck was holding, for on our arrival we found that Susan had returned. The following day, January the second, after breakfast, a wire for Jonah arrived. When he had read it: "That's curious," he said. "I wonder how he knew we were here?" "Who's it from?" said Jill. "Harry Fairie, the man I met at Pau last Easter.
The signature was Evelyn Fairie, and underneath had been added, "Castle Charing, Somerset. With my love." I slipped it into my pocket and started the car. "And how did Jilly get on?" I said abstractedly, as we rolled down the street. "Oh, Boy," she cried, "it was so funny. I'm sure they took me for somebody else.
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