See also the other ale song at p. 81 of the same volume, with the burden
Doll thi ale, doll; doll thi ale, doll;
Ale mak many a mane to have a doty poll.
p. 191, [l. 435], Gromes. “the said four groomes, or two of them at the least, shall repaire and be in the King’s privy chamber, at the farthest between six and seven of the clock in the morning, or sooner, as they shall have knowledge that the King’s highnesse intendeth to be up early in the morning; which groomes so comen to the said chamber, shall not onely avoyde the pallets, but also make ready the fire, dresse and straw the chamber, purgeing and makeing cleane of the same of all manner of filthynesse, in such manner and wise as the King’s highnesse, at his upriseing and comeing thereunto, may finde the said chamber pure, cleane, whollsome, and meete, without any displeasant aire or thing, as the health, commodity, and pleasure of his most noble person doth require.” Household Ordinances, p. 155, cap. 56, A.D. 1526.
[From the reprint by Bensley & Sons (in 1817) of
“The Booke of Demeanor from Small Poems entitled
The Schoole of Vertue by Richard Weste,” 1619, 12mo.]
[To the Reader.]
| R | Ightly conceiue me, and obserue me well, |
| I | Doe what heere is done for Childrens good, |
| C | Hrist in his Gospell (as S. Marke doth tell) |
| H | Ath not forbidden Children, nor withstood |
| A | Ny that should but aske the ready way, |
| R | Egarding Children, not to say them nay. |
| D | Irecting all that came, how faith should be, |
| W | Hat they should crave of Gods high Majestie, |
| E | Ven Salvation, through their faithful Prayer, |
| S | Ending their contemplations into the ayre, |
| T | O his high throne, whose love so guide us all |
| E | Ven to the end we neuer cease to call. |
[N.B.—The stops and sidenotes are those of the original, but that has no Headlines.]