The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

With brode barres to and fro;

A horne about his necke he caste;

And forth he went at the laste,

To do his office in the halle

Among the lordes both greate and small.

He toke a white yeard in his hand;

Before the kynge than gan he stande;

And sone he set hym on his knee,

And served the kynge ryght royally

With deynty meates that were dere.—