The consideration of his fall made
Ganymede full of sorrows; yet, that she might triumph over fortune
with patience, and not any way dash that merry day with her dumps, she
smothered her melancholy with a shadow of mirth, and very reverently
welcomed the king, not according to his former degree, but to his
present estate, with such diligence as Gerismond began to commend the
page for his exquisite person and excellent qualities.
[Footnote 1: affections.]
As thus the king with his foresters frolicked it among the shepherds,
Corydon came in with a fair mazer[1] full of cider, and presented it
to Gerismond with such a clownish salute that he began to smile, and
took it of the old shepherd very kindly, drinking to Aliena and the
rest of her fair maids, amongst whom Phoebe was the foremost. Aliena
pledged the king, and drunk to Rosader; so the carouse went round
from him to Phoebe, &c. As they were thus drinking and ready to go to
church, came in Montanus, apparelled all in tawny, to signify that he
was forsaken; on his head he wore a garland of willow, his bottle
hanged by his side, whereon was painted despair, and on his sheep-hook
hung two sonnets, as labels of his loves and fortunes.
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