Catches, canons and drinking songs
to your rude health,
Item: A Rebus on the late Mr Henry Purcell’s Name by...
Song: The mate to a cock, and corn tall as wheat is...
The Mate to a Cock, & Corn tall as Wheat is his Christian Name, who in Musick's compleat, his Sirname begins with the Grace of a Cat, & concludes with the House of a Hermit note that, his Skill & performance each auditor wins, but the Poet deserves a good kick on the Shins.
Galli marita par tritico seges,
Prœnomen est ejus, dat chromati leges
Intrat cognomen, blanditiis Cati,
Exit Eremi in œdibus stati,
Expertum effectum omnes admirentur
Quid merent Poetœ? ut bene calcentur.
