Catches, canons and drinking songs
to your rude health,
Song: Ha’ done, you little teasing wretch, you’re...
Text:
Ha’ done, you little teasing wretch, you’re always asking, “What’s a catch?”
my Lord, you caught me by the toe, if that’s a catch, ‘tis very low,
but when such brilliant eyes inspire we raise the catch to something higher
if so ’tis but a middling jest, though middling things they say are best.
