Catches, canons and drinking songs
to your rude health,
Item: In Praise of Claret
Song: A pox on repining, dear Jack, be content, ’tis...
A Pox on repining, dear Jack, be content, 'tis Store of good Claret, good Claret, good Claret, thy Care will prevent, 'twill ripen thy Wit, and heighten thy Love, & make thee a Companion, and make thee a Companion for Gods above, for there's none but such honest good Fellows go there, not one reaches Heav'n, with drinking, with drinking, with drinking, small Beer: then fill up thy Glass, & to Happiness hast, for I long of ye Heavenly Liquor, ye Heavenly Liquor to tast.
