Contents a Treasure;
Or, The Jovial Loyalist.
A most pleasant New play Song, greatly in Request, both at Court and
THEATRE.
Contents a Treasure, nothing more can be,
Tis all that can make happy thee or me;
Content and Loyalty, and harmless Mirth,
Are those that give to all our Joys a Birth:
Wine is a charm, tis armour-proof and male,
It quicks our Sences, when our Wits do fail;
Keeps us from Cold, and hushes all our Cares,
And in the midst of Dangers stiffles fears.
To a New Tune of, We are jovial Topers; Or, There was a jovial Begger.
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WE are Jovial Topers,
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that no man evil think,
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But study to be Merry,
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and drink off our Drink,
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And so Merry we will be,
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Will be, will be, will be,
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And so Merry we will be.
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No Plots we ere invented,
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against the Church and State,
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But still we keep our Loyalty,
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and shun all rash debate,
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And so Merry, etc.
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In scarcity and plenty,
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we always are content,
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We ner repine at Providence,
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but take what it has sent,
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And so Merry, etc.
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When the weathers Rainy,
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or Cloudy, for to warm us,
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Each man turns off his glass or two
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which never yet could harm us,
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And so Merry we will be,
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Will be, will be, will be,
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and so merry we will be.
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A Health or two we pass about,
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to those were sure are Loyal,
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But those that otherways we find,
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we generously defie all,
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And so merry, etc.
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We give to every man his due,
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no Mortal can say other,
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We live like kind Companions,
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and still love one another,
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And so merry, etc.
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Let the Worldlings sweat and moile
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for guilded Clay, we care not,
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Tis all but dross, we value not,
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then spend it Boys, and spare not
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And so merry, etc.
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Rich Nectar does inflame us,
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and makes our thoughts divine,
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All sorrows it does banish,
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theres nothing like brisk wine,
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And so merry, etc.
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If we have our Mistris,
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she still does make us jolly,
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Tis Clarret or Canary,
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that makes us see mens folly,
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And so merry, etc.
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The world it is an Ocean,
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wherein all men are Sailing,
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Then briskly drink about Boys,
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and let there be no failing,
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And so merry, etc.
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Come fill us tother Bumper,
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we see no cause to part yet,
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Wine is the only Jewel,
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that ever charmd my heart yet,
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And so merry, etc.
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Though fortune it does frown,
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wel ner be melancholly,
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Tis vain to grieve for ought below,
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rash sororws but a folly,
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And so merry, etc.
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Come fill us tother Bumper Boys,
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let it be just a Brimmer,
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And he that will not pledge it,
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a Whigg is, or a Trimmer,
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And so merry, etc.
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To Charles our King, his gracious Queen
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and to his Royal Brother,
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Come fill it up again Boys,
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heres to the Prince another,
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And so merry, etc.
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We have the world at will boys,
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theres nothing we can lack,
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Since our Cups with Nectar flow,
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tis Nectar we call Sack,
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And so merry, etc.
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Theres none so happy live as we,
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on us delights do showre,
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We live from hate and envy free,
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more safe then those in power,
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And so merry we will be,
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Will be, will be, will be,
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And so merry we will be.
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