3780Repentant mattress for chastising Lent,

Stout as a face of steel, which ne'er will yield;

Their sheets were tenants, weekly payed rent,

The pillow was with juice of noddles steeled,

And therefore fit to bolster any sin.

Their coverlet was of a bullock's skin.

Their urine vessel was of Ticknall make,

Whose inside was with unshorn vellet clad.

Their bedstead floated in a springing lake

Where frogs and newts their rendezvouses had.