The Entertainment at Sir William Cokayne's in Easter Week (The Cock) · chunk 2 of 2
Middleton, Thomas · published 1621 · first performed or written 1621 [1620-1621] (Annals) entertainment; civic play unassigned nearest T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions · 308 words
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My reverence next to you, to you, that are The Fathers of this City; by whose care, Wisdom & watchfulness, the good cause thrives, You that are Lights and precedents in Lives, Noble Examples, Honours t'age and Time, This is the Top which your good cares must climb, A ceaseless labour Virtue hath imposed, Upon all those, whom Honour hath enclosed; And such are you, selected from the rest, Works then that are most choice become you best; Place before all your Actions and Intents, The rare gifts of that Bird, this but presents: Behold the very shape and Figure, now, Serves for a Noble Welcome, turned into A Cup of Bounty, and t'adorn the Feast, Loaden with love comes to each worthy Guest; And but observe the manner, there's in that, Freeness expressed, humility, yet State; First you take off his head, to taste his heart, Which shows at this time power is laid apart, And bounty fills the place; then he goes round; To show a Welcome of an equal Sound, To every one a free one, through the Board, So plain he speaks the goodness of his Lord, Take then respectful Notice through the Hall, That here the noble Health begins to All. THe Health's begun, In the Bird of the Sun, pledge it round pledge it round, With hearty welcome it comes crowned, O pledge it round: The Ceremonies due Forget not as they were begun to you, When you are drunk to, you're by duty led, First to kiss your hand, then take off the head, You cannot miss it then, To put it on and kiss it again; The next to whom the Health doth flow, It taught to honour your Pledge so, So round, round, round, round, let it go, As above, so below; For Bounty did intend it always so.
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My reuerence next to you, to you, that are The Fathers of this Citty; by whoſe care, Wiſedome & watchfulnes, the good cauſe thriues, You that are Lights and Preſidents in Liues, Noble Examples, Honours t'Age and Time, This is the Top wch your good cares muſt climbe, ``A ceaſleſſe labour Vertue hath impos'd, ``Vpon all thoſe, whom Honour hath enclos'd; And ſuch are you, ſelected from the reſt, Works then that are moſt choice become you beſt; Place before all your Actions and Intents, The rare gifts of that Bird, this but preſents: Behold the very ſhape and Figure, now, Serues for a Noble Welcome, turnd into A Cup of Bounty, and t'adorne the Feaſt, Loaden with loue comes to each worthy Gueſt; And but obſerue the manner, there's in that, Freeneſſe expreſt, humility, yet State; Firſt you take off his head, to taſt his heart, Which ſhowes at this time power is laid apart, And bounty fils the place; then he goes round; To ſhew a Welcome of an equall Sound, To euery one a free one, through the Boord, So plaine hee ſpeakes the goodneſſe of his Lord, Take then reſpectfull Notice through the Hall, That heere the noble Health begins to All. THe Health's begun, In the Bird of the Sun, pledge it round pledge it round, With hearty welcome it comes crownd, O pledge it round: Th Ceremonies due Forget not as they were begun to you, When you are dranke to, y'are by duty led, Firſt to kiſſe your hand, then take off the head, You cannot miſſe it then, To put it on and kiſſe it agen; The next to whom the Health doth flow, It taught to honour your Pledge ſo, So round, round, round, round, let it goe, As aboue, ſo below; For Bounty did intend it alwayes ſo.