Next appeared ten thousand virgins, all modest, lovely, and in light drapery, singing hymns in praise of Ganesa on the Rat, the god of pure Love.
Attended by ten thousand youths, who tickled the said ten thousand virgins, singing hymns in praise of the upright Fo.
Fifty thousand archers of the green dragon battalion, each carrying a long peacock’s feather in his right band, to ascertain how the wind blew.
Five hundred physicians attending the celestial court, each carrying a silver box with golden pills.
The head physician to the celestial wits, and always in attendance upon a crisis. He carried in his right-hand a bladder-full of peas at the end of a wand, to recall his majesty’s wits when they wandered; and was followed by...
Fifty thousand fools marching five abreast in union.
And fifty thousand rogues, marching off with every thing they could lay their hands upon.
Then came a notorious faquir and mendicant, who was leader of a celebrated sect. He wore but one tail instead of the two usually worn by our nation, but that tail was of forty feet. He was followed by numerous devotees, who threw their worldly goods at his feet, and in return he presented them with writings and harangues, which he declared were infallible in all diseases.
Ten thousand young married women, each hushing an infant to repose upon the left breast to the sound of clarions and trumpets, emblematical of the peaceful and quiet state of matrimony.
The banner of impudence.