A merrier man, A man more apt to frame matter for mirth, Mad jokes, and anticks for a Christmas eve; Making life social, and the laggard time To move on nimbly, never yet did cheer The little circle of domestic friends.

C's stage direction runs: He seems to Conjure: sweett Musick is heard, and an Antick of litle Fayeries enter and dance about ye Bowle and fling in things, and Ext.