2164Cor.O, but some meat, some meat: do you not see,

2165How neere they are to death for want of food?

2166Per.Lord, which didst help thy seruants at their need,

2167Or now or neuer send vs helpe with speed.

2168Oh, comfort, comfort! yonder is a banquet,

2169And men and women, my Lord: be of good cheare;

2170For I see comfort comming very neere.

2171O my Lord, a banquet, and men and women!

2172Leir. O, let kind pity mollify their hearts,

2173That they may helpe vs in our great extreames.

2174Per.God saue you, friends; & if this blessed banquet

2175Affordeth any food or sustenance,

2176Euen for his sake that saued vs all from death,

2177Vouchsafe to saue vs from the gripe of famine. She bringeth him to the table

2178Cor. Here father, sit and eat, here, sit & drink:

2179And would it were far better for your sakes.

2181Per. Ile giue you thanks anon: my friend doth faynt,

2182And needeth present comfort. Leir drinks.

2183Mum. I warrant, he ne're stayes to say grace:

2184O, theres no sauce to a good stomake.

2185Per.The ble}}d God of heauen hath thought vpon vs.

2186Leir. The thanks be his, and these kind courteous folke,

2187By whose humanity we are preserued. They eat hungerly, Leirdrinkes.

2188Cor.And may that draugh tbe vnto him, as was

2189That which old Eson dranke, which did renue

2190His withered age, and made him young againe.

2191And may that meat be vnto him, as was

2192That which Elias ate, in strength whereof

2193He walked fourty dayes, and neuer faynted.

2194Shall I conceale me longer from my father?

2195Or shall I manifest my selfe to him?

2196King. Forbeare a while, vntill his strength returne,

2197Lest being ouer ioyed with seeing thee,

2198His poore weake sences should forsake their office,

2199And so our cause of ioy be turnd to sorrow.

2200Per.What chere, my Lord? how do you feele your selfe?

2201Leir. Me thinks, I neuer ate such sauory meat:

2202It is as pleasant as the blessed Manna,