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Song: Taking his beer with old Anacharsis, quoth surly...

by Henry Aldrich . A Catch for Three voices , in G major

Text:

Taking his beer with old Anacharsis,
quoth surly swashbuckler, “Your wife, Sir, mine arse is,”
“Vous avez,” quoth sage, “she’s a homely brown lass,
but after a bumper or two she may pass,”
his advice was so right,
it converted Sir Knight,
who all his life after drank Saturday night.

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