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And when that wc have drunk our fill,
Then we'll go home with good free will,
The devil take the spinning wheel,
For we love Tea and Brandy.Fal lal, &c.
Then in comes smirkling, smiling Peg,
Come play me up the other jig,
My apron's short, my belly's big,
By drinking Tea and Brandy. Fal lal, &c.
Now to conclude and make an end,
Of these few lines which I have penn'd,
I hope they will not want a friend,
To give them Tea and Brandy. Fal lal, &c.
Time Caught and Drown'd in Wine.
ONE cv'ning Good humour brought wit as a guest,
By friendship invited to share of the feast;
Their liquor was Claret, and love was their host,
And harmony garnish'd each double meant toast.
But while like true bucks they cnjoy'd their design,
For the joys of a buck lie in love, wit and wine,
Alarm'd they all heard at the door a loud knock,
And the watchman hoarse bellow'd-past 12 o'clock.
They nimbly ran down, the disturbing dog found,
And up stairs they dragg'd the impertinent hound,
When brought to the light how much were they pleas'd
To find 'twas the gray glutton, time, they had seiz'd.
His glass for a lanthorn, his scythe for a pole,
And a single lock dangled down his smooth skull,
My friends (quoth he couching) I thought fit to knock,
And bid you begone for 'tis past twelve o'clock.
Says the venom-tooth savage, on this advice fix,
Tho' nature strikes twelve, folly still points at six,
He longer had preach'd but no longer they'd bear it,
So hid him at once in a hogshead of Claret,
