| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | An Epilogue | | By Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624?–1674) |
| | | SIR CHARLES into my chamber coming in, | |
| When I was writing of my ‘Fairy Queen’; | |
| ‘I pray’—said he—‘when Queen Mab you do see | |
| Present my service to her Majesty: | |
| And tell her I have heard Fame’s loud report | 5 |
| Both of her beauty and her stately court.’ | |
| When I Queen Mab within my fancy viewed, | |
| My thoughts bowed low, fearing I should be rude; | |
| Kissing her garment thin which fancy made, | |
| I knelt upon a thought, like one that prayed; | 10 |
| And then, in whispers soft, I did present | |
| His humble service which in mirth was sent; | |
| Thus by imagination I have been | |
| In Fairy court and seen the Fairy Queen. | | | | |
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