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 Between two cackels stew’d,

Is meat that’s easily chew’d;

Brains of worms and marrow of mice,

Do make a feast that’s wond’rous nice.

The grashopper, gnat, and fly,

Serve for our minstrelsy;

Grace said, we dance a while,

And so the time beguile:

But if the moon doth hide her head,

The glow-worm lights us home to bed.

O’er tops of dewy grass,

So nimbly we do pass,

The young and tender stalk

Ne’er bends where we do walk;

Yet in the morning may be seen

Where we the night before have been.