Then wilt thou speak of banqueting delights,
Of masks and revels which sweet youth did make.

The speaker imagines a future moment of recollection in which the addressee will recount the pleasures of youth—feasting, disguises, and festive entertainments. The phrasing (“Then wilt thou…”) implies a temporal contrast: present experience will become retrospective narrative, and “sweet youth” is framed as a distinct, vanishing season whose joys are vivid but ultimately past. The lines participate in a common early modern lyric preoccupation with time, memory, and the fleeting nature of courtly or social pleasures, suggesting both nostalgia and an implicit warning that such “delights” are transient and will survive chiefly as stories told afterward.