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Over which took their station six kettles Five butts of boil'ds beef of a gigantic 



or more, size. 



Which promised a feast, when they On the Vjoard took their station, with 



opened iheir store ; joy and surprise ; 



And round this tlat furnace, to keep On these close attended, as guards 



thein quite hot, raug'd for pleasure. 



Were plac'd twelve more vessels, which As many mash'd pease as would heap a 



held — God knows what. strike measure, 



Four cooks, in short bed-gowns, attend Vv'itli cabbage a pyramid, much like a 



by desire, steeple : 



Like the witches in Macbeth, to stir up All these were surrounded with — thirty- 



the fire. eight people. 



" Fortv trenchers, with dull knives, " The moment arriving w}>en dinner 



and forks made no brighter, was o'er, 



Were spread on some napkins, which The places were taken by tliirty-eight 



once had been whiter, more — 



Supported by planks, forty feet long, or And then a third set, nearly equal to 



more, these. 



Completely were rais'd on the grass out Sat down to the cabbage, the beef, and 



of door. these peas; 



But here we are bound the word table Besides about fifty remaining behind, 



to offer. Who stuck to the tankard, for none of 



That our verse's great dignity never may them din'd. 



suffer. " And now an old dish, open'd wide at 



The table prepar'd, and the cooking each sinner, 



completed, As if it would say — " Pay a shilling 



'Twas perfectly needful the guests should for dinner." 



be seated. Eight strike of brown malt, which Caer- 



Loose boards were erected on stones narvon had seen, 



witli great art; And cost the bride's father two pojnds 



But proving too hard for a certain and fourteen, 



broad part. Was brew'd into diink that would make 



A number of cushions were instaatly one man mad, 



made. But give'n a second, would make his 



But not with a needle — no; form'd with heart glad. 



a spade. Each quart brought back sixpence, and 



The linest of ling, root and branch from tliat pretty soon, 



the common, Ilis cot was a public-house that after- 



Pai'd off, prot'd a cushion for man and noon. 



for woman, " The glass going round — no — the 



" Noiv folks, male and female, came "nig, I would say, 



in by whole dozens, The lads and the lasses began to look 



Of neighbours, acquaintance, of friends, gay, 



and of cousins. To smile on each other, to toy and to 



It excited surprise, from a region of joke ; 



rocks, I was an observer, but not a word spoke. 



That orderly people sliould issue by " The bard, in high rapture, his harp 



flocks. handled soon. 



Black stockings, blue cloaks, and men's And twang'd with his fingers, to try if in 



hats, all admire, tunc ; 



Which appear'd to be every female's aV- The people selected, and pairing be- 



tire. gan, 



" While many a longing eye glanc'd Each lass was indulg'd with choice of 



at the board, Iier man; 



The word dinner sounded — acceptable Than Amazons more than like fairies 



word ! were B«en, 



Full 



