This city & this country has brought forth many mayors

This city & this country has brought forth many mayors
To sit in state, & give forth laws out of their old oak chairs,
With face as brown as any nut with drinking of strong ale —
Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail !

With scarlet gowns & broad gold lace, would make a yeoman sweat;
With stockings roll'd above their knees & shoes as black as jet;
With eating beef & drinking beer, O they were stout & hale —
Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail !

Thus sitting at the table wide the Mayor & Aldermen
Were fit to give law to the city; each eat as much as ten:
The hungry poor enter'd the hall to eat good beef & ale —
Good English hospitality, O then it did not fail !