“In olde dayes of King Artour,

Of which the Bretons speken gret honour,

All was this lond fulfilled of Faerie;

The elf-quene with hire joly compagnie

Danced ful oft in many a grene mede.

This was the old opinion as I rede,

I speke of many hundred yeres ago;

But now can no man see non elves mo.”