Preparations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEFFBB GGHHI JJKKLM NNOOPP| Yet if His Majesty our sovereign lord | A |
| Should of his own accord | A |
| Friendly himself invite | B |
| And say 'I'll be your guest to morrow night ' | C |
| How should we stir ourselves call and command | D |
| All hands to work 'Let no man idle stand | D |
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| 'Set me fine Spanish tables in the hall | E |
| See they be fitted all | E |
| Let there be room to eat | F |
| And order taken that there want no meat | F |
| See every sconce and candlestick made bright | B |
| That without tapers they may give a light | B |
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| 'Look to the presence are the carpets spread | G |
| The dazie o'er the head | G |
| The cushions in the chairs | H |
| And all the candles lighted on the stairs | H |
| Perfume the chambers and in any case | I |
| Let each man give attendance in his place ' | - |
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| Thus if a king were coming would we do | J |
| And 'twere good reason too | J |
| For 'tis a duteous thing | K |
| To show all honour to an earthly king | K |
| And after all our travail and our cost | L |
| So he be pleased to think no labour lost | M |
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| But at the coming of the King of Heaven | N |
| All 's set at six and seven | N |
| We wallow in our sin | O |
| Christ cannot find a chamber in the inn | O |
| We entertain Him always like a stranger | P |
| And as at first still lodge Him in the manger | P |
Anonymous
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