O. LORD W. A good far unexpected. And now, gentlemen, I do invite you all to feast with me This happy day, that we may all together Applaud his good success: and let this day be spent In sports and shows, with gladsome merriment. Come, bless'd converted man,[402] we'll lead the way, As unto heaven I hope we shall. HOG. Heaven grant we may! CAR. Come, my Maria and repentant friend, We three have tasted worst of misery, Which now adds joy to our felicity. HAD. We three are happy we have gain'd much wealth, And though we have done it by a trick of stealth, Yet all, I trust, are pleased, and will our ills acquit, Since it hath sav'd a soul was hell's by right. Y. LORD W. To follow after, then, our lot doth fall; Now rhyme it, Peter. P. SER. A good night to all. [_Exeunt omnes._ FOOTNOTES: [394] [Old copy, _him_.] [395] Verstegan, in his "Restitution of Decayed Intelligence," 1634, p. 126, gives the following account of the origin of this term: "As this Lady (_i.e._, Rowena) was very beautiful, so was she of a very comely deportment, and Hingistus, having invited King Vortiger to a supper at his new-builded castle, caused that after supper she came foorth of her chamber into the King's presence, with a cup of gold filled with wine in her hand, and making in very seemly manner a low reverence unto the King, sayd, with a pleasing grace and countenance, in our ancient language, _Waes heal hlaford Cyning,_ which is, being rightly expounded according to our present speech, _Be of health, Lord King_, for as _was_ is our verbe of the preterimperfect tense, or preterperfect tense, signifying _have bin_, so _was_ being the same verb in the imperative mood, and now pronounced _wax_, is as much as to say _grow, be_, or _become;_ and _waes-heal_, by corruption of pronunciation, afterwards became to be _wassaile_. The King not understanding what shee said, demaunded it of his chamberlaine, who was his interpreter, and when he knew what it was, he asked him how he might againe answer her in her owne language, whereof being informed, he sayd unto her _Drinc heal_, that is to say, _Drink health_."--See also a note to "The Ordinary," in vol. xii. [396] _Didst_ in the old copy, where these lines are printed as a stage direction. [397] The 4º reads-- "I overslip what Croesus _suit_ command." --_Collier._ [398] Or muscadel. A kind of wine so called, because for sweetness and smell it resembles musk. "From Bosco Helerno we soon came to Montefiascone, standing upon a hill. It's a bishop's seate, and _famous for excellent Muscatello wine_," &c.--Lassells' "Voiage of Italy," 8º, 1670, 244.--_Gilchrist._ [399] [Referring to some tale of the day. Compare p. 468.] [400] See note to "A Match at Midnight," act i. sc. i. (vol. xiii.) [401] Æneas. [402] [Meaning Hog.] EPILOGUE