[I am sent, with broom, before,
To sweep the dust behind the door]
Cleanliness is always necessary to invite the residence and the
favour of Fairies.
_These make our girls their slutt'ry rue,
By pinching them both black and blue.
And put a penny in their shoe
The house for cleanly sweeping._ Drayton.
V.i.398 (105,5) [Through this house give glimmering light] Milton
perhaps had this picture in his thought:
_Glowing cabers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom._ Il Penseroso.
So Drayton:
_Hence shadows seeming idle shapes
Of little frisking elves and apes,
To earth do make their wanton 'scapes
As hope of pastime hastes them._