With face as brown as any nut with drinking of strong ale—
Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail!
With scarlet gowns and broad gold lace, would make a yeoman sweat;
With stockings rolled above their knees and shoes as black as jet;
With eating beef and drinking beer, O they were stout and hale—
Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail!
Thus sitting at the table wide the Mayor and Aldermen
Were fit to give law to the city; each ate as much as ten:
The hungry poor entered the hall to eat good beef and ale—
Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail!