But it befell that, on the very next night to his playing the chimney-sweep, Robin had a summons from the land where are no chimneys. For King Oberon, seeing Robin Goodfellow do so many merry tricks, called him out of his bed with these words, saying:— "Robin, my son, come; quickly rise: First stretch, then yawn, and rub your eyes; For thou must go with me tonight, And taste of Fairy-land's delight." Robin, hearing this, rose and went to him. There were with King Oberon many fairies, all attired in green. All these, with King Oberon, did welcome Robin Goodfellow into their company. Oberon took Robin by the hand and led him a fair dance: their musician had an excellent bag-pipe made of a wren's quill and the skin of a Greenland fly. This pipe was so shrill and so sweet that a Scottish pipe, compared to it, would no more come near it than a Jew's-harp doth to an Irish harp. After they had danced, King Oberon said to Robin:— "Whene'er you hear the piper blow, Round and round the fairies go! And nightly you must with us dance, In meadows where the moonbeams glance, And make the circle, hand in hand— That is the law of Fairy-land! There thou shalt see what no man knows; While sleep the eyes of men doth close!" So marched they, with their piper before, to the Fairy-land. There did King Oberon show Robin Goodfellow many secrets, which he never did open to the world. And there, in Fairy-land, doth Robin Goodfellow abide now this many a long year. A QUARREL IN FAIRYLAND (ARRANGED FROM "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM") Time—Midsummer Night. Place—An enchanted grove. _Characters_ OBERON—_King of Fairyland_ TITANIA—_Queen of Fairyland_ PUCK—_Robin Goodfellow_ BOTTOM—_A clownish fellow_ PEAS-BLOSSOM COBWEB MOTH } MUSTARD SEED } _Fairies_ ATTENDANT FAIRIES SCENE I (_Enter, from opposite sides, a_ FAIRY _and_ PUCK) PUCK. How now, spirit! whither wander you? FAIRY.