, and then fill it up with the
rose-water, then in another Charger have the proportion of a Stag
made of course paste, with a broad Arrow in the side of him, and his
body filled up with claret-wine; in another Charger at the end of
the Stag have the proportion of a Castle with Battlements,
Portcullices, Gates and Draw-Bridges made of Past-board, the Guns
and Kickses, and covered with course paste as the former; place it
at a distance from the ship to fire at each other. The Stag being
placed betwixt them with egg shells full of sweet water (as before)
placed in salt. At each side of the Charger wherein is the Stag,
place a Pye made of course paste, in one of which let there be some
live Frogs, in each other some live Birds; make these Pyes of course
Paste filled with bran, and yellowed over with saffron or the yolks
of eggs, guild them over in spots, as also the Stag, the Ship, and
Castle; bake them, and place them with guilt bay-leaves on turrets
and tunnels of the Castle and Pyes; being baked, make a hole in the
bottom of your pyes, take out the bran, put in your Frogs, and
Birds, and close up the holes with the same course paste, then cut
the Lids neatly up; To be taken off the Tunnels; being all placed in
order upon the Table, before you fire the trains of powder, order it
so that some of the Ladies may be perswaded to pluck the Arrow out
of the Stag, then will the Claret-wine follow, as blood that runneth
out of a wound. This being done with admiration to the beholders,
after some short pause, fire the train of the Castle, that the
pieces all of one side may go off, then fire the Trains, of one side
of the Ship as in a battel; next turn the Chargers; and by degrees
fire the trains of each other side as before. This done to sweeten
the stink of powder, let the Ladies take the egg-shells full of
sweet waters and throw them at each other. All dangers being
seemingly over, by this time you may suppose they will desire to see
what is in the pyes; where lifting first the lid off one pye, out
skip some Frogs, which make the Ladies to skip and shreek; next
after the other pye, whence come out the Birds, who by a natural
instinct flying in the light, will put out the Candles; so that what
with the flying Birds and skipping Frogs, the one above, the other
beneath, will cause much delight and pleasure to the whole company:
at length the Candles are lighted, and a banquet brought in, the
Musick sounds, and every one with much