An antidote against melancholy: made up in pills. Compounded of witty ballads, jovial songs, and merry catches.

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Title: An antidote against melancholy: made up in pills. Compounded of witty ballads, jovial songs, and merry catches.
Author: J. P.
Publication: London :: printed for John Playford at his shop in the Temple,; 1669.
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Subject terms: English wit and humor
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4 Catch.

'Mongst all the precious Juices
Afforded for our uses,
There's none to be compar'd with Sack;
For the body or the mind
No such Physick you shall find,
Therefore boy see we do not lack.

VVould'st thou hit a lofty strain,
VVith this Liquor warm thy brain,
And thou Swain shalt sing as sweet as Sidney;
Or would'st thou laugh and be fat,
There's not any like to that
To make Jack Sprat a man of Kidney.

It is the Soul of mirth
To poor Mortals upon Earth,
It would make a coward bold as Hector,
Nay I wager durst a Peece,
That those merry Gods of Greece
Drank old Sack and Nectar.