If ye will with Mab find grace,
		Set each Platter in his place:
		Rake the Fire up, and get
		Water in, ere Sun be set.
		Wash your Pailes, and clense your Dairies;
		Sluts are loathsome to the Fairies:
		Sweep your house: Who doth not so,
		Mab will pinch her by the toe.
				The Fairies (entire poem)

		Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State
		I with discretion, dedicate.
		Because thou prizest things that are
		Curious, and un-familiar.
		Take first the feast; these dishes gone;
		Wee'l see the Fairy-Court anon.
				Oberon's Feast (lines 1-6)
				(Complete Poem)

		And now, we must imagine first,
		The Elves present to quench his thirst
		A pure seed-Pearle of Infant dew,
				ibid. (lines 19-21)

		Rare Temples thou hast seen, I know,
		And rich for in and outward show:
		Survey this Chapel, built, alone,
		Without or Lime, or Wood, or Stone:
		Then say, if one th'ast seene more fine
		Then this, the Fairies once, now Thine.
				The Fairie Temple (lines 1-6)

		Any Orts the Elves refuse
		Well will serve the Beggars use.
				The Beggar to Mab, the Fairie Queen								(lines 19-20)

		So a blessing light upon
		You, and mighty Oberon:
		That your plenty last till when,
		I return your Almes again.
				ibid. (line 25-29)
	
		After the feast (my Shapcot) see,
		The Fairie Court I give to thee:
		Where we'le present our Oberon led
		Halfe tipsie to the Fairie bed,
		Where Mab he finds; who there doth lie
		Not without mickle majesty.
				Oberon's Palace (lines 1-6)

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