"Then robès rich, fiddle, or psaltry."
A sergeant-at-law, "wary and wise, that often had been at the Porvis" (the portico of St. Paul's, where lawyers met for consultation).
A Frankelin, with white beard and sanguine complexion, and a silken "Gipciere" (purse) hanging from his girdle; a pompous sort of man, fond of good living, in whose house "snowed meat and drink, who was an important man in his county, lord and sire at sessions, high sheriff, and full often knight of the shire."
A haberdasher, a carpenter, a webbe (weaver), a dyer, and a tapiser; citizens with pouches full of silver; "yclothed in one livery of a solemn and great fraternity."
"Well seemed each of them a fair burgess,
To sitte in a Guildhall, on the dais,"
and all fitted by wisdom to be aldermen.
With them had they a cook, "to boil the chickens and the marrow bones," who, perhaps in consequence of the hot nature of his vocation, had a wondrous penchant for "draughts of London ale."
A shipman, "who rode upon a rouncy (hack) as best he could," somewhat after the style of modern mariners.
A doctor of physic, "well grounded in astronomy," who