Catches, canons and drinking songs

to your rude health,

Song: True Englishmen drink a good health to the...

by Henry Purcell . For Three voices , in G minor

Text:

True Englishmen drink a good health to the Miter,
let our church ever flourish though her enemies spite her,
may their cunning and forces no longer prevail,
but their malice as well as their arguments fail,
then remember the sev’n who supported our cause,
as stout as our martyrs and as just as our laws.

This song in sources:

Images:

Edition:

    Version 8e32e8d8d4ff87611fd1ef7b6f028a335f89012d (2021-10-22T17:00:34+01:00)