Catches, canons and drinking songs
to your rude health,
Song: How soft the delights, and how charming the joy...
Text:
How soft the delights, and how charming the joy
where love and enjoyment each other support,
let the cynical fool call pleasure a toy
who ne’er fame in the camp had nor love in the court,
O so kindly ye combats each other succeed,
where ’tis triumph to die and a pleasure to bleed.
