...the com That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lays him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; But crop full out of doors he flmgs, When the first cock his matin rings." We find, also, Puck, or...

...corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, 110 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, ns By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. no lubber] ' There is a pretty tale of a witch that had...

...hath threshed the corn, That ten day-lahourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop full out at door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." L'Allegro. Shakspeare has unequivocally...

...day-lahourers could not end ; Then lies hun down the luhher fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimneys length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he nings, Ere the first cock his matins rings." The reader will ohserve that our simple ancestors had...

...hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength j And crop full out at door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." L'Allegro. Shakspeare has...

...hath thrashed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks...the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of door be flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings." Sir Walter Scott says, " tradition has ascribed...

...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering...

...thresh'd the corn That ten day-lah'rers could not end; Then lays him down the luhhar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." The following on the same suhject is from the " Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of...

...the com, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fíend, And, stretch'd brother. And half the platform just doore he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, lo bed they creep, By whispering...

...worth of farm-work — " That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength." Thus both Classical and later antiquity combine in asserting the existence of dsemons or goblins whose...