Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
Three merry Boys, and three merry Boys, and three merry Boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string under the Gallow-tree.
II.
_But I that was so lusty,_
_And ever kept my Bottles,_
_That neither they were musty,_
_And seldome less than Pottles;_
_For me to be thus stopt now,_
_With Hemp instead of Cork, Sir,_
_And from the Gallows lopt now,_
_Shews that there is a fork, Sir,_
_In death, and this the token,_
_Man may be two ways killed,_
_Or like the Bottle, broken,_
_Or like the Wine, be spilled._
Three merry Boys, &c.
III.
_Oh yet but look on the Master Cook, the glory of the Kitchin,_
_In sowing whose fate, at so lofty a rate, no Taylor e'r had
stitching,_
_For though he makes the Man, the Cook yet makes the Dishes,_
_The which no Taylor can, wherein I have my wishes,_
_That I who at so many a Feast, have pleas'd so many tasters,_
_Should now my self come to be drest, a dish for you my Masters._
Three merry Boys, &c.
_Cook._ There's a few Copies for you; now farewel friends:
And good Mr. Sheriff let me not be printed
With a brass Pot on my head.
_But._ March fair, march fair, afore, good Captain _Pantler_.
IV.
_Pant._ _Oh man or beast, or you at least,_
_That wear or brow or antler,_
_Prick up your ears, unto the tears_
_Of me poor_ Paul _the Pantler,_
_That thus am clipt, because I chipt_
_The cursed Crust of Treason_
_With Loyal Knife; Oh doleful strife,_
_To hang thus without reason._
_Actus Quartus. Scena Prima._
_Enter_ Aubrey, _and_ Latorch.
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