RALPH ROISTER DOISTER.
ACTUS I., SCÆNA 1.
Matthew Merrygreek. He entereth singing.
As long liveth the merry man (they say),
As doth the sorry man, and longer by a day;
Yet the grasshopper, for all his summer piping,
Starveth in winter with hungry griping:
Therefore another said saw doth men advise,
That they be together both merry and wise.
This lesson must I practise or else, ere long,