A welcome you’ll get there I guarantee you,
With bread and cheese plenty, and prime beer, too;
I know, for I have tried it, and everybody there
Can have ‘bacco and pipes enough and to spare.
It delights me a jovial assembly to see,
For it is wiser sometimes to forget misery;
There are times for complaining and song, too we’re told,
In the proverb of old, which is true as it’s old.
A bumping big cup and a lot of bright men,
Bring before me the jolly old times o’er again,