The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.291

v2.c17.s1.291

*Then old and young are both as much as guests of Bacchus' feast ;*
*And four days long they tipple, square, and feede, and never rest.*
........*feare and shame away ;*
*The tongue is set at libertie, and hath no kind of stay.*
*All thinges are lawfull then and done, no pleasure passed by,*
*That in their minds they can devise, as if they then should die*
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*Some naked run about the streets, their faces hid alone*
*With visars close, that so disguised they may of none be knowne.*
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*No matron olde, nor sober man can freely by them come*⁶⁸.