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Rh Ore hedge and lands, Thro' pools and ponds I whirry, laughing, ho, ho, ho!

When lads and lasses merry be, With possets and with juncates fine; Unseene of all the company, I eat their cakes and sip their wine; And to make sport, I dart and snort; And out the candles I do blow: The maids I kiss; They shrieke—"Who's this?" I answer nought but, ho, ho, ho!

By wells and rills, in meadowes greene, We nightly dance our hey-day guise;, And to our fairye king, and queene, We chaunt our moonlight minstrelsies; When larks 'gin sing, Away we fling; And babes new borne steal as we go, And elfe in bed We leave instead, And wend us laughing, ho, ho, ho!

From hag-bred Merlin's time have I Thus nightly revelled to and fro; And for my pranks men call me by The name of Robin Goodfellow. Fiends, ghosts, and sprites, Who haunt the nightes, The hags and goblins do me know; And beldames old My feates have told; So Vale, Vale; ho, ho, ho! [Exit ]