Note 47 — SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES. (continued 2)
Reading edition
In his L'Allegro, where he
"Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn the cream-bowl duly set, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shad'wy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labours 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, cropful, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings."