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- 202 Notes [Act V
Herrick, Hesperides : —
"If ye will with Mab finde grace,
Set each platter in its place ;
Rake the fire up and fet
Water in ere sun be set,
Wash your pales and cleanse your dairies ;
Sluts are loathsome to the fairies :
Sweep your house ; who doth not so,
Mab will pinch her by the toe ; "
Bishop Corbet's Farewell to the Fairies : —
" Farewell, rewards and fairies,
Good housewives now may say ;
For now fowle sluts in dairies
Do fare as well as they :
And though they sweepe their hearths no lesse
Than maides were wont to doe,
Yet who of late for cleanlinesse
Findes sixpence in her shooe ? "
and Drayton, Nymphidia : —
" These make our girls their sluttery rue,
By pinching them both black and blue.
And put a penny in their shoe,
The house for cleanly sweeping."
Nash, in his Terrors of the Night, 1594, remarks that "the Robin
Goodfellowes, elfes, fairies, hobgoblins of our latter age, . . . pincht
maids in their sleep that swept not their houses cleane," etc. So
in Robin Goodfellow ; his mad prankes, etc., 1628, we read; "many
mad prankes would they play, as pinching of sluts black and blue,
and misplacing things in ill-ordered houses ; but lovingly would
they use wenches that cleanly were, giving them silver and other
pretty toyes, which they would leave for them, sometimes in their
shooes, other times in their pockets, sometimes in bright basons
and other cleane vessels."
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