Then rais’d they on trestles the tables full tight, + 

Cast on them cloths, and a clear light too + 

On the walls they awak’d with the waxen torches + 

By servitours set, that served in the hall. + 

Múch noise of merriment made they anon + 

On floor by the fire, and as free was the revel + 

At supper and after, with songs full glorious, + 

As Christmas-conduit, and carols of dance, + 

All the mannerly mirth that man may tell of; + 

And our lovesome liege at the lady’s side. + 

So sweetly she behav’d, with so seemly a semblance + 

And stol’n looks of love, that stalwart to please, + 

That the wight was forwonder’d, and wroth with himself, + 

Yet for his nurture so fine he would not refuse her, + 

But courtesy show’d, how the case soe’er turn’d + 

awry. + 

They have their play in hall, + 

In pleasure still they vie; + 

Then to chamber is the call, + 

And to chimney-side they hie. + 