Then a troop of servants entered bearing smoking joints, cold boars' heads, fish, turkeys, geese, and larded capons.

These were placed upon the table, with an abundance of French wine, and of strong ale for those who preferred it, to wash down the viands.

The first courses were followed by dishes of meats and confections, and when all was finished and cleared away Sir Henry Furness rose to his feet.
"Fill your glasses all," he said; "and bumpers.

The toast which I give you to-day is 'The king, God bless him.' Never should Englishmen drink his health more earnestly and solemnly than to-day, when rebels have driven him from his capital, and pestilent traitors threatened him with armed force.

Perhaps, my friends, you, like me, may from time to time have grumbled when the tax-collectors have come round, and you have seen no one warrant for their demands.