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324 With its mellifluous and pleasing fruit:

For nought can more be sweetened to my mind

Than that this Pamphlet thy contentment find;

Which if it shall, my labour is sufficed,

In being by your liking highly prized.

"Yours to his power,

"R. S."

This is followed (pp. 1-3) by: "A Description of the Kings [sic] of Fayries Clothes, brought to him on New-Yeares day in the morning, 1626, by his Queenes Chambermaids:&mdash;

First a cobweb shirt, more thin

Than ever spider since could spin.

Changed to the whiteness of the snow,

By the stormy winds that blow

In the vast and frozen air,

No shirt half so fine, so fair;

A rich waistcoat they did bring,

Made of the Trout-fly's gilded wing:

At which his Elveship 'gan to fret

The wearing it would make him sweat

Even with its weight: he needs would wear

A waistcoat made of downy hair

New shaven off an Eunuch's chin,

That pleased him well, 'twas wondrous thin.

The outside of his doublet was

Made of the four-leaved, true-loved grass,

Changed into so fine a gloss,

With the oil of crispy moss:

It made a rainbow in the night

Which gave a lustre passing light.