The courteous Citizen bad me to his feast, With hollow words, and ouerly request: Come, will ye dine with me this Holy day? I yeelded, tho he hop'd I would say @3Nay:@1 For had I mayden'd it, as many vse, Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. @3Alacke sir,@1 I were loath, @3Another day: I should but trouble you: pardon me if you may.@1 No pardon should I neede, for to depart He giues me leaue, and thanks too in his heart. Two wordes for money @3Darbishirian wise:@1 (That's one too many) is a naughtie guise. Who lookes for double biddings to a feast, May dine at home for an importune guest. I went, and saw, and found the great expence, The fare and fashions of our Citizens. O: @3Cleopatricall:@1 what wanteth there For curious cost, and wondrous choise of cheare? Beefe, that earst @3Hercules@1 held for finest fare: Porke for the fat @3Boeotian,@1 or the hare For Martiall: fish for the @3Venetian,@1 Goose liuer for the likerous @3Romane, Th' Athenians@1 goate, Quaile, @3Iolaus@1 cheere, The @3Hen@1 for @3Esculape,@1 and the @3Parthian Deere, Grapes@1 for @3Arcesilas, figs@1 for @3Platoes@1 mouth. And Chesnuts faire for @3Amarillis@1 tooth. Had'st thou such cheer? wer't thou euer ther before? Neuer: I thought so: nor come there no more. Come there no more, for so ment all that cost: @3Neuer hence take me for thy second host.@1 For whom he meanes to make an often guest, One dish shall serue, and welcomes make the rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM THE PEOPLE, THE MOB by CARL SANDBURG BUCOLIC COMEDY: AUBADE by EDITH SITWELL ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 13. ON LYRIC POETRY by MARK AKENSIDE OH, LOVE THOU TOO! by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS THE CROSS; TO THE MOTHERS OF THE MARTYRED DEAD UPON FIELD OF BATTLE by JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER PSALM 86 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |