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Rh And her selfe more worth than all the wealth shee possessed;

Selfe? indeede such a selfe, as Thundring Ioue in Olympus,

Though he were father could finde in his hart to be husband.

Embassage ended, to the Queene of faire Lacedæmon;

(Happie King of a Queene so faire, of a Country so famous)

Embassage ended, a Banquet braue was appointed:

Sweet Repast for a Prince, fine Iunkets fit for a Kings sonne.

Biskets and Carrawayes, Comfets, Tart, Plate, Ielly, Ginge-bread,

Lymons and Medlars: and Dishes moe by a thousand.

First they fell to the feast, and after fall to a Dauncing,

And from a Dance to a Trance, from a Trance they fell to a falling

Either in others armes, and either in armes of another.

Pastime ouer-past, and Banquet duely prepared,

Deuoutly pared: Each one hies home to his owne home,

Saue Lord and Ladie; Young Lad, but yet such an old Lad,

In such a Ladies lappe, at such a slipperie by-blow,

That in a world so wide, could not be found such a wilie

Lad: in an Age so old, could not be found such an old lad:

Old lad, and bold lad, such a Boy, such a lustie Iuuentus.

Well to their worke they goe, and both they iumble in one Bed:

Worke so well they like, that they still like to be working:

For Aurora mounts before he leaues to be mounting:

And Astrea fades before she faints to be falling:

(Helen a light Huswife, now a lightsome starre in Olympus.)