With that my Friend said, that _blot_ will I bear, You have done very well, it is time to strike saile, Wee’l have six pots more, though I dye on the score, To make all this good of a _Pot of good ALE_. [Followed by Ben Jonson’s Cook Lorrel, and by The Blacksmith: for which see _Merry Drollery, Complete_, pp. 214-17, 225-30.] [p. 14.] _An Old Song of an Old Courtier and a New._ With an Old Song made by an Old Ancient pate, Of an Old worshipful Gentleman who had a great Estate; Who kept an old house at a bountiful rate, And an old Porter to relieve the Poore at his Gate, _Like an old Courtier of the Queens_. With an old Lady whose anger and [? one] good word asswages, Who every quarter payes her old Servants their wages, Who never knew what belongs to Coachmen, Footmen, & Pages, But kept twenty thrifty old Fellows, with blew-coats and badges, _Like an old Courtier of the Queens_. With an old Study fill’d full of Learned books, With an old Reverent Parson, you may judge him by his looks, With an old Buttery hatch worn quite off the old hooks, And an old Kitching, which maintains half a dozen old cooks; _Like an old Courtier of the Queens_. With an old Hall hung round about with Guns, Pikes, and Bowes, With old swords & bucklers, which hath born[e] many shrew’d blows, And an old Frysadoe coat to cover his Worships trunk hose, And a cup of old Sherry to comfort his Copper Nose; _Like an old Courtier of the Queens_. With an old Fashion, when _Christmas_ is come, To call in his Neighbours with Bag-pipe and Drum, And good chear enough to furnish every old Room, And old liquor able to make a cat speak, and a wise man dumb; _like an Old_ [_Courtier of the Queens_.] With an old Hunts-man, a Falkoner, and a Kennel of Hounds; Which never Hunted, nor Hawked but in his own Grounds; Who like an old wise man kept himself within his own bounds, And when he died gave every child a thousand old pounds; _like an Old_ [_Courtier of the Queens_.] But to his eldest Son his house and land he assign’d, Charging him in his Will to keep the same bountiful mind, To be good to his Servants, and to his Neighbours kind, But in th’ ensuing Ditty you shall hear how he was enclin’d; _like a young Courtier of the Kings_. [Part Second.] Like a young Gallant newly come to his Land, That keeps a brace of Creatures at’s own command, And takes up a thousand pounds upon’s own Band, And lieth drunk in a new Tavern, till he can neither go nor stand; _like a young_ [_Courtier of the Kings_].