Transcriber's Note

Spellings are sometimes erratic. A few obviousmisprints have been corrected, but in general the original spelling hasbeen retained. Accents in the French and Spanish passages areinconsistent, and have not been standardised.

BLACKWOOD’S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No CCCXLIV.JUNE, 1844.VOL. LV.

CONTENTS.

Traditions and Tales of Upper Lusatia. No. I. the Fairies’ Sabbath, 665
Columbus. (A Print After a Picture by Parmeggiano.) By B. Simmons,687
To Swallows on the Eve of Departure. By the Same,690
The Diligence. A Leaf from a Journal,692
Who wrote Gil Blas?698
Michael Kalliphournas,725
Africa—Slave Trade—Tropical Colonies,731
Narration of certain Uncommon Things that did formerly happen to me, Herbert Willis, B.D.749
Beau Brummell, 769
The Actual Condition of the Greek State,785
Index,797

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No CCCXLIV.JUNE, 1844.VOL. LV.

TRADITIONS AND TALES OF UPPER LUSATIA.

No. I.
The Fairies’ Sabbath.

What is a fairy?

Read!

[“A Wood near Athens.—Enter a Fairy on one side, and Puck on theother.A]

Puck. How now, Spirit! whither wander you?
Fairy. Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander ever where,
Swifter than the moones sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green:
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be r
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