Weare They To Burst, Heere They Will Shew
Their Courage.
The time comes on.
The best is that we are sure none will
forsake his place, nor man nor woman. A number of french entertaines them,
keeping them from sleepe in dancing & singing, for that is the custome.
Their lutrill, an instrumentall musick, is much heere in use. Yett nothing
is done as yett, ffor there comes the thickened flower, the oyle of bears,
venison. To this the knif is not enough; the spunes also are used. Wee see
allready severall postures: the one beats his belly, the other shakes his
head, others stopp their mouthes to keepe in what they have eaten. They
weare in such an admiration, making strange kinds of faces, that turned
their eyes up and downe. We bid them cheare up, & tould them it was an
usuall custome with the ffrench to make much of themselves & of their
friends. "They affect you, and yee must shew such like to them by shewing
your respects to them that they so splendidly trait you. Cheere up like
brave men. If your sleepe overcomes you, you must awake; come, sound [the]
drumme, it is not now to beat the Gien; [Footnote: "To beat the gien,"
probably meaning the guitar, as Charlevoix mentions that at the feast to
the Indians one of the French young men played upon that instrument for
their amusement.] come, make a noise. Trumpett blow and make thy cheeks
swell, to make the belly swell alsoe."
In the end nothing [is] spared that can be invented to the greater
confusion.
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