Classic Poem

Downe to the King's most bright-kept Baths they went,
Where handmaids did their services present,
Bath'd, balmd them, shirts and well-napt weeds put on,
And by Atrides' side set each his throne.
Then did the handmaid royall water bring,
And to a Laver, rich and glittering,
Of massie gold, powr'd; which she plac't upon
A silver Caldron, into which might runne
The water as they washt. Then set she neare
A polisht table, on which all the cheare
The present could affoord, a reverend Dame
That kept the Larder set. A Cooke then came
And divers dishes, borne thence, serv'd again,
Furnisht the boord with bolles of gold.