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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

William Shakespeare. 1564–1616

130. Fairy Land iv

WHERE the bee sucks, there suck I: 
In a cowslip’s bell I lie; 
There I couch when owls do cry. 
On the bat’s back I do fly 
After summer merrily:         5
  Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, 
  Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.