When envious night commands them to be gone,

Call for the merry yongsters one by one,

And for their well performance some disposes,

To this a garland interwove with roses;

To that a carved hooke, or well-wrought scrip,

Gracing another with her cherry lip:

To one her garter, to another then

A handkerchiefe cast o're and o're agen;

And none returneth empty, that hath spent

His paynes to fill their rurall merriment."[155:A]