Lyrical Poems
41. THE BEGGAR TO MAB, THE FAIRY QUEEN

Robert Her

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Please your Grace, from out your store

Give an alms to one that's poor,

That your mickle may have more.

Black I'm grown for want of meat,

Give me then an ant to eat,

Or the cleft ear of a mouse

Over-sour'd in drink of souce;

Or, sweet lady, reach to me

The abdomen of a bee;

Or commend a cricket's hip,

Or his huckson, to my scrip;

Give for bread, a little bit

Of a pease that 'gins to chit,

And my full thanks take for it.

Flour of fuz-balls, that's too good

For a man in needy-hood;

But the meal of mill-dust can

Well content a craving man;

Any orts the elves refuse

Well will serve the beggar's use.

But if this may seem too much

For an alms, then give me such

Little bits that nestle there

In the pris'ner's pannier.

So a blessing light upon

You, and mighty Oberon;

That your plenty last till when

I return your alms again.

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