A Song in Praise of Punch.
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COME fill up the Bowl with the Liquor that fine is,
And much more Divine is,
Than now a-days Wine is, with all their Art,
None here can controul:
The Vintner despising, tho’ Brandy be rising,
’Tis Punch that must chear the Heart:
The Lovers complaining, ’twill cure in a trice,
And Cælia disdaining, shall cease to be nice,
Come fill up the Bowl, &c.
Thus soon you’ll discover, the cheat of each Lover,
When free from all Care you’ll quickly find,
As Nature intended ’em willing and kind:
Come fill up the Bowl, &c.
A SONG.
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BONNY Peggy Ramsey that any Man may see,
And bonny was her Face, with a fair freckel’d Eye,
Neat is her Body made, and she hath good Skill,
And square is her Wethergig made like a Mill:
With a hey trolodel, hey trolodel, hey trolodel lill,
Bonny Peggy Ramsey she gives weel her Mill.
Peggy to the Mill is gone to grind a Bowl of Mault,
The Mill it wanted Water, and was not that a fault;
Up she pull’d her Petticoats and piss’d into the Dam,
For six Days and seven Nights she made the Mill to gang;
With a hey, &c.
Some call her Peggy, and some call her Jean,
But some calls her Midsummer, but they all are mista’en;
For Peggy is a bonny Lass, and grinds well her Mill,
For she will be Occupied when others they lay still:
With a hey, &c.
Peg, thee and Ise grin a poke, and we to War will leanes,
Ise lay thee flat upon thy Back and then lay to the steanes;
Ise make hopper titter totter, haud the Mouth as still,
When twa sit, and eane stand, merrily grind the Mill:
With a hey, &c.
Up goes the Clap, and in goes the Corn,
Betwixt twa rough steans Peggy not to learn;
With a Dam full of Water that she holdeth still,
To pour upon the Clap for burning of the Mill:
With a hey, &c.
Up she pull’d the Dam sure and let the Water in,
The Wheel went about, and the Mill began to grind:
The spindle it was hardy, and the steanes were they well pickt,
And the Meal fell in the Mill Trough, and ye may all come lick:
With a hey trolodel, hey trolodel, hey trolodel lill,
Bonny Peggy Ramsey she gives weel her Mill.