Vivite laeti.

Ne dolor vestros animos fatiget,
Vos jubet laeta haec removere curas
Turba, laetari feriaeque suadent
Vivite laeti.

En Ceres laetae segetis creatrix,
Et pater vini placidique somni
Pocula haec vobis hilares ministrant
(monarcha
Sume (
(magister.

_Bibunt omnes ordine dum, actores haec ultima carmina saepius repetunt;
max singuli toti conventui sic ordine gratulantur._

_Tenor._

Reddere faelicem si quemquam copia possit
Copia faelicis nomen habere jubet,
Copia laete jubet tristes depellere curas,
Copia quam cingit Bacchus et alma Ceres.

_Counter._

Quem non delectant moderate pocula sumpta?

_Tenor._

Cujus non animum dulcia vina juvant?
Dulcia vina juvant dulcem dant vina soporem,
Magnificas ornant dulcia vina dapes.

_Meane._

Frugibus alma Ceres mortalia pectora nutrit,
Exornant campurn frugibus alma Ceres.
Si cuiquam desint Cerelia dona, nec illi
Lenaei patris munera grata placent.

Nec vobis Cereris nec Bacchi munera desint,
Annuat et votis Jupiter ipse meis.

_Treble._

Alma Ceres vestris epulis laetatur, et ecce
Copia cum Baccho gaudia laeta canunt
_Mox omnes cantantes Exeunt._

Gaudium laetum canimus, canemus
Hoc idem semper, nec enim dolere
Jam licet, laetae feriae hic aguntur
Vivite laeti.

Saepius nobis reriae revertant,
Saepius vinum liceat potare,
Saepius vobis hilares canamus
Vivite laeti.

"This then was suddenly and extempore clapt together for want of a
better, but notwithstanding was as willingly and chearefully receaved
as it was proferd.

"By this time it was foure a clocke and liberty was given to every one
to goe to bed or stay up as long as they pleased. The Prince with his
councell brake up their watch, so did most of the Masters of the
house, but the younger sort stayed up till prayers time, and durst not
goe to bed for feare of one another. For some, after they had licence
to depart, were fetcht out of their beds by their fellowes, and not
suffered to put on their clothes till they came into the hall. And
thus the day came and made an end of the night's sport.

"On the sixt of February, beeing egge Satterday, it pleased some
gentlemen schollers in the town