The bean found out, and monarch crown’d,
He dubs a fool, and sends him round,
To raise the frolic when it’s low—
Himself commands the wine to flow.
Each watches for the king to quaff,
When, all at once, up springs the laugh;
They cry “The king drinks!” and away
They shout a long and loud huzza!
And when it’s ended comes the dance,
And—thus is Twelfth-night spent in France.
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[14] Rudge’s Gloucester.
January 6.
Epiphany.—Old Christmas-day.
Holiday at the Public-offices.
Twelfth-day.
It is only in certain rural parts of France that the merriments represented above still prevail. The [engraving] is from an old print, “I. Marriette ex.” [inscribed] as in the next column.
“L’Hiver.
Les Divertissements du Roi-boit.