" They labour most part not to pass their time in honest disport, but for filthy lucre, and covetousness of money.

Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipped in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.

And sikerly she was of grete disport And ful plesánt and amiable of port, And peinëd hire to contrefeten chere Of court,[30] and ben estatelich of manére And to ben holden digne of reverence.

They persecute beasts so long, till in the end they themselves degenerate into beasts, as Agrippa taxeth them, Actaeon like, for as he was eaten to death by his own dogs, so do they devour themselves and their patrimonies, in such idle and unnecessary disports, neglecting in the mean time their more necessary business, and to follow their vocations.

Alas! where are all these, or any similar, "merry disports" in our degenerate days?

An open house, haunted with great resort; Long service mixed with musical disport.