Catches, canons and drinking songs
to your rude health,
Song: For the catch club at Almack’s this catch have I...
Text:
For the catch club at Almack’s this catch have I made,
and I hope it will please as I hope to be paid,
ten guineas is money! my muse ’twill inspire,
enliven my genius and tune up my lyre,
then take off your glasses and sing your parts true,
and remember the proverb: give the devil his due.
