London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H.
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London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H.
Author
Hicks, William, fl. 1671.
Publication
London :: Printed by F. Eglesfield ...,
1673.
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Subject terms
Songs, English -- Texts.
English wit and humor.
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"London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43693.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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The Drunkards Invitation. A Song.
1.
COme take up your Cups and spare not,And think no more hurt than I do;Call for Quart after Quart,To drive Sorrow from thy Heart;And then tumble in the dirt as I do:
2.
Come take up your Liquor and stay not,Still calling for more, as I do,And up with your Drink,Till y'ave spent all your Chink,And then run on the Score as I do.
3.
Come take up your Drink, and flinch not,And every day feast as I do;Drink again and again,Till y'ave fill'd ev'ry Vein,And then spew like a Beast, as I do.
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4.
Come trole it about with swiftness,Be every day drunk as I,And get many knocks,Nay be put in the Stocks,For kissing your Punk, as I do.
5.
Pick Quarrels, and fight in thy fury,And meet with your match as I do,And be laid by the Heels,Though against your wills,For abusing the Watch as I do.
6.
Come wind up your bottoms and care not,Till y'ave belcht and stunk as I do,Call for Pint after Pint,Till the Brain's out of joint,Then cast up what y'ave drunk as I do.
7.
I'll adopt you my Heirs at present,And install you the Sons of King Priam;So that you will beSo frolick and free,To be every man drunk as I am.
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