The clarret drinkers song, or, The good fellows design by a person of quality.

The clarret drinkers song, or, The good fellows design by a person of quality.

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The Clarret Drinker's SONG: OR, The Good Fellows Design.

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The Clarret Drinker's SONG: OR, The Good Fellows Design.

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By a Person of Quality.

APOX of the Fooling and Plotting of late,

What a Pother and Stir has it kept in the State?

Let the Rabble run mad with Suspicions and Fears;

Let 'em Scuffle and Iarr, till they go by the Ears;

Their Grievances never shall trouble my Pate,

So I can but enjoy my dear Bottle at quiet.

What Coxcombs were those, who would barter their Ease,

And their Necks, for a Toy, a thin Wafer and Mass?

At Old Tyburn they never had needed to swing,

Had they been but true Subjects to Drink, and their King:

A Friend and a Bottle is all my Design,

H'as no room for Treason, that's top-full of Wine.

I mind not the Members and Makers of Laws,

Let 'em Sit or Prorogue as His Majesty please;

Let 'em damn us to Woollen, I'll never repine

At my Lodging when dead, so alive I have VVine.

Yet oft in my Drink I can hardly forbear,

To Curse 'em, for making my Claret so dear.

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I mind not grave Asses, who idly debate

About Right and Succession, the Trifles of State;

VVe've a good King already, and he deserves laughter,

That will trouble his head with who shall come after.

Come here's to his health, and I wish he may be

As free from all care and all trouble as we.

What care I how Leagues with the Hollander go,

Or Intrigues betwixt Sidney and Monsieur d'Avaux;

What concerns it my Drinking if Cazall be sold,

If the Conquerour takes it by storming or Gold;

Good Bourdeaux alone is the place that I mind,

And when the Fleet's coming, I pray for a Wind.

The Bully of France, that aspires to Renown,

By dull Cutting of Throats and vent'ring his own:

Let him fight and be damn'd, and make Matches and treat,

To afford News-mongers and Coffee house chat:

He's but a brave Wretch, whilst I am more free,

More safe, and a thousand times happier than he.

Come he or the Pope, or the Devil to boot;

Or come Faggot and Stake, I care not a Groat:

Never think that in Smithfield I Porters will heat:

No I swear Mr. Fox pray excuse me for that.

I'll drink in Defiance of Gibbet and Halter,

This is the Profession that never will alter.

FINIS.

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LONDON, Printed 1680.

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Title statement

The clarret drinkers song, or, The good fellows design by a person of quality.

Oldham, John, 1653-1683.

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1680

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Date

2003-05 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

A53286

ID [STC]

Wing O233

ID [STC]

ESTC R33636

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

13541682

ID [OCLC]

ocm 13541682

ID [VID]

100087

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— The clarret drinkers song, or, The good fellows design by a person of quality., Oldham, John, 1653-1683., Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704..

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1 sheet (2 p.)

[s.n.],. London printed :: 1680.. (In verse.) (Caption title.) (Attributed by Wing to Oldham; also attributed by NUC pre-1956 imprints to Thomas Brown.) (Imprint from colophon.) (Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.)

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