Since we were young as you.

Then welcome to our spacious Hall! 5

Tom, Bessy, Mary, welcome all!

Though removed from busy men,

Yea lonesome as the foxes’ den,

’Tis a place for joyance fit,

For frolic games and inborn wit. 10

’Twas nature built this hall of ours;

She shap’d the bank; she framed the bowers

That close it all around;