EBBA 30416
British Library - Roxburghe
| The Claret-Drinkers Song; / OR, / THE GOOD-FELLOWS DESIGN. / Being a Pleasant New Song to the Times. Written by a Person of Quality. / Wine the most powerfull’st of all things on Earth, / Which stifles Cares and Sorrows in their Birth: / No Treason in it harbors, nor can Hate / Creep in where it bears sway, to hurt the State: / Though Storms grow high, so Wine is to be got, / We are secure, their Rage we value not: / The Muses cherish'd up such Nectar, sing / Eternal joy to him that loves his King. | |
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| Date Published | 1680-1690 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Jordan, at the Angel, in Guilt-spur-street. |
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| Collection | British Library - Roxburghe |
| Pages | 3.82, 3.83 |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.9.82-83 |
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| Title | The Claret-Drinkers Song; / OR, / THE GOOD-FELLOWS DESIGN. / Being a Pleasant New Song to the Times. Written by a Person of Quality. / Wine the most powerfull’st of all things on Earth, / Which stifles Cares and Sorrows in their Birth: / No Treason in it harbors, nor can Hate / Creep in where it bears sway, to hurt the State: / Though Storms grow high, so Wine is to be got, / We are secure, their Rage we value not: / The Muses cherish'd up such Nectar, sing / Eternal joy to him that loves his King. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, Let Caesar Live long. |
| First Lines | A Pox of the Fooling and Plotting of Late, / What a pudder and stir has it kept in the State? |
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