"The aspect only with the substance gone." Evidently the mug that passed around was becoming a thing of the past.
"The self-same Horn is still at our command,
But serves none now but the plebeian hand."
The picture he draws of the farmer who, in face of prevailing fashion, "yields up the custom that he dearly loves" is pathetic. The long table and dining in common together had seemingly vanished. "The separate table and the costly bowl" touch the rustic poet's pride. He italicises the word "separate."
CHEST. DATED 1636.
With Welsh inscription on lid. (Standing on table of later date.)