And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there.

Once again, he's blegging for more esoteric trivia.

Once divination reveals the deviant and spells out the necessary rite of retribution, the deviant is able to delabel himself by performing this rite, which is also thought to remove the misfortune from the family.

The next step was a carved or painted effigy of an animal or bird, such as a swan, which was fixed in a hoop and hung at the end of the ale pole.