and blowing castles and convents about the ears of their inhabitants. The first has a daughter, who is queen of the elves and fairies; the second has a mother, who is a powerful enchantress: neither of these ladies are worth more than the gentlemen: I do not remember to have heard any family assigned to the two other daemons, but at present I have no business with any of them except the fiend of the waters. He is the hero of my ballad; but I thought it necessary before I began, to give you some account of his proceedings⁠—”

Theodore then played a short symphony; after which, stretching his voice to its utmost extent to facilitate its reaching the ear of Agnes, he sang the following stanzas.