Displesed much at þat play in þat plyt stronge,
Þat his jueles so gent wyth javeles wer fouled,
Þat presyous in his presens wer proved sumwhyle.
Line 1496
Soberly in his sacrafyce summe wer anoynted,
Þurȝ þe somones of himselfe þat syttes so hyȝe;
Now a boster on benche bibbes þerof,
Tyl he be dronkken as þe devel, and dotes þer he syttes.
Line 1500
So þe Worcher of þis worlde wlates þerwyth,
Þat in þe poynt of her play he porvayes a mynde;
Bot er harme hem he wolde in haste of his yre,
He wayned hem a warnyng þat wonder hem þoȝt.
Line 1504
Nou is alle þis guere geten glotounes to serve,
Stad in a ryche stal and stared ful bryȝt[e]; [MS., M. bryȝtȝ; M. note bryȝte(?).] [MS., M. vus.]
Baltazar in a brayd bede [b]us þerof—
'Weȝe wyn in þis won—Wassayl!' he cryes.
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Swyfte swaynes ful swyþe swepen þertylle,
Kyppe kowpes in honde kyngez to serve;
In bryȝt bollez ful bayn birlen þise oþer,
And uche mon for his mayster machches alone. [folio 82a]
Þer watz rynging, on ryȝt, of ryche metalles,
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Quen renkkes in þat ryche rok rennen hit to cache,
Clatering of covaclez þat kesten þo burdes, [M. conacleȝ.]
As sonet out of sau[t]eray songe als myry. [MS. saueray; M. sau[t]eray.]
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Þen þe dotel on dece drank þat he myȝt;
And þenne [drinkez] arn dressed [to] dukez and prynces, [Bülbring (Sch., p. 184) reads Þenne [drinkes] arn dressed [for] dukez and prynces; B. would insert dere after dressed; G. reads þenne þat derrest arn dressed; E. þenne derely arn dressed.]
Concubines and knyȝtes, bi cause of þat merthe;
As uch on hade hym inhelde, he haled of þe cuppe.
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So long likked þise lordes þise lykores swete,
And gloryed on her falce goddes, and her grace calles,
