Note 197 — THE MASQUE.

Wassail-bowl] Filled with spiced wine or ale, &c., and used on New-year’s eve, &c.: see Brand’s Pop. Antiq. vol. i. p. 1, sqq. ed. 1813. In the Masque by Jonson just mentioned, one of the children of Christmas is “Wassel, like a neat sempster, and songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with ribands and rosemary, before her.”