Catches, canons and drinking songs

to your rude health,

Item: Young John the gard’ner having lately got a very...

by Mr H Purcell . For Three voices, in C major

Song: Young John the gard’ner having lately got a very...

Young John the Gard'ner having lately got a very rich and fertil Garden Plot bragging to Joan Quoth he so rich a Ground for Melons cannot in the World be found That's a damn'd lye quoth Joan for I can tell a place that does your Garden far excell where's that says John in mine arse quoth Joan for there is store of Dung and Water all the Year.

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