Book ii

. p. 29, 1655. It is also in _Parnassus Biceps_, 1656, p. 158, “_All_ Poets,” &c., and in _Sportive Wit_, p. 60.

Page 144. _Hang the Presbyter’s Gill._

With music in _Pills_, vi. 182; title, “The Presbyter’s Gill:” where we find three other verses, as 4th, 5th, and 7th:—

4.

_The stout-brested ~Lombard~, His brains ne’er incumbred,_ _With drinking of Gallons three;_ _~Trycongius~ was named, And by ~Cæsar~ famed,_ _Who dubb’d him Knight Cap-a-pee._

5.

_If then Honour be in’t, Why a Pox should we stint_ _Ourselves of the fulness it bears?_ _H’ has less Wit than an Ape, In the blood of a Grape,_ _Will not plunge himself o’er Head and Ears._

7.

_See the bold Foe appears, May he fall that him Fears,_ _Keep you but close order, and then_ _We will give him the Rout, Be he never so stout[,]_ _And prepare for his Rallying agen._

8 (Final).

_Let’s drain the whole Cellar, &c._

The accumulative progression, humourously exaggerated, is to be seen employed in other Drinking Songs; notably in “Here’s a Health to the Barley-Mow, my brave boys!” (still heard at rural festivals in East Yorkshire, and printed in J. H. Dixon’s _Bds. & Sgs. of the Peasantry_, Bell’s annotated edit., p. 159) and “Bacchus Overcome,” beginning “My Friend and I, we drank,” &c. (in _Coll. Old Bds._, iii. 145, 1725.)

Page 145. _’Tis Wine that inspires._

With music by Henry Lawes, in his Select Ayres, i. 32, 1653, entitled “The Excellency of Wine:” the author was “LORD BROUGHALL” [query, Broghill?].

(Page, in original, 55.) _Let the bells ring._

See Introduction to our _Westminster-Drollery_ Reprint, pp. xxxvii-viii. Although not printed in the first edition of his “Spanish Curate,” it is so entirely in the spirit of JOHN FLETCHER that we need not hesitate to assign it to him: and he died in 1625.

Page 146. _Bring out the [c]old Chyne._

With music, by Dr. John Wilson, in John Playford’s _Select Ayres_, 1659, p. 86, entitled Glee to the Cook. A poem attributed to Thomas Flatman, 1655, begins, “A Chine of Beef, God save us all!”

Page 147. _In Love? away! you do me wrong._

Given, with music by Henry Lawes, in his _Select Ayres_,