noon
Then let fond Petrarch shroud his Laura 's praise , And Tasso cease to publish his affect , Since mine the faith confirmed at all assays , And hers the fair , which all men do respect . My lines her fair , her fair my faith assures ; Thus I by love , and love by me endures . `` Thus , '' quoth Rosader , `` here is an end of my poems , but for all this no release of my passions ; so that I resemble him that in the depth of his distress hath none but the echo to answer him . '' Ganymede , pitying her Rosader , thinking to drive him out of this amorous melancholy , said that now the sun was in his meridional heat and that it was high noon , `` therefore we shepherds say , 't is time to go to dinner ; for the sun and our stomachs are shepherds ' dials . Therefore , forester , if thou wilt take such fare as comes out of our homely scrips , welcome shall answer whatsoever thou wantest in delicates . '' Aliena took the entertainment by the end , and told Rosader he should be her guest . He thanked them heartily , and sate with them down to dinner , where they had such cates as country state did allow them , sauced with such content , and such sweet prattle , as it seemed far more sweet than all their courtly junkets .