Original text | Modern text | Key line |
Elues, list your names: Silence you aiery toyes. | Elves, list your names; silence, you airy toys. | MW V.v.42 |
Cricket, to Windsor-chimnies shalt thou leape; | Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap. | MW V.v.43 |
Where fires thou find'st vnrak'd, and hearths vnswept, | Where fires thou findest unraked and hearths unswept, | MW V.v.44 |
There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, | There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. | MW V.v.45 |
Our radiant Queene, hates Sluts, and Sluttery. | Our radiant Queen hates sluts and sluttery. | MW V.v.46 |
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Vilde worme, thou wast ore-look'd euen in thy birth. | Vile worm, thou wast o'erlooked even in thy birth. | MW V.v.83 |
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A triall, come. | A trial, come. | MW V.v.88.1 |