Of euery sort to take vp two or three,
which from the boorde I bare away with me.
Now let the Comfittes in my pocket rest,
and let me view the company a while:
Of women kinde, whose view did like me best,
how some could frowne, and other sweetly smile:
Some could looke coy, in halfe a skorneful wise,
and some would stare, and same looke vnder eyes.
Some by sharpe nose would seeme to be a shrow,
and some more halfe a sheepe by countenance,
Some sulleine seemde, by looking downe to lowe,
some gentle seemde, by casting friendly glaunce,
Some seemed proude, by looking too too hye,
and some, would cast on all a friendly eye.
Now gan I gesse by outward countenance,
the disposition of eche deinty dame,
And though perhappes I missed some by chaunce,
I hit some right, I doo not doubt the same:
But shall I tell of eche one what I gest,
no••ie, for why, fond tatling breedes vnrest.
But let them be such as they were, by chaunce,
our banquet doone, we had our musicke by:
And then you knowe the youth must needes goe daunce,
first Galiardes, then Lar••us, and H••idegy,
••id lustie gallant, all floures of the broome,
and then a hall, for dauncers must haue roome.
And to it then, with set and turne about,
chaunge sides, and crosse, and minse it like a hau••e:
Backeward and forward, take handes the••, in and out,
and now and then, a litle holsome talke: