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759. EXAMPLES; OR, LIKE PRINCE, LIKE PEOPLE.
Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.
Such as the prince is, will his people be.
760. POTENTATES.
Love and the Graces evermore do wait
Upon the man that is a potentate.
Upon the man that is a potentate.
761. THE WAKE.
Come, Anthea, let us two
Go to feast, as others do.
Tarts and custards, creams and cakes,
Are the junkets still at wakes:
Unto which the tribes resort,
Where the business is the sport.
Morris-dancers thou shall see,
Marian[1], too, in pageantry,
And a mimic to devise
Many grinning properties.
Players there will be, and those
Base in action[2] as in clothes;
Yet with strutting they will please
The incurious[3] villages.
Near the dying of the day
There will be a cudgel-play,
Where a coxcomb[4] will be broke
Ere a good word can be spoke:
But the anger ends all here,
Drenched in ale, or drown'd in beer.
Happy rustics! best content
With the cheapest merriment,
And possess no other fear
Than to want the wake next year.
Go to feast, as others do.
Tarts and custards, creams and cakes,
Are the junkets still at wakes:
Unto which the tribes resort,
Where the business is the sport.
Morris-dancers thou shall see,
Marian[1], too, in pageantry,
And a mimic to devise
Many grinning properties.
Players there will be, and those
Base in action[2] as in clothes;
Yet with strutting they will please
The incurious[3] villages.
Near the dying of the day
There will be a cudgel-play,
Where a coxcomb[4] will be broke
Ere a good word can be spoke:
But the anger ends all here,
Drenched in ale, or drown'd in beer.
Happy rustics! best content
With the cheapest merriment,
And possess no other fear
Than to want the wake next year.
