Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6
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Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6
Ballads, English; Songs, English
Let us be blith,
In spight of Death's Syth,
And with an Heart and half,
Drink to our Friends,
And think of no Ends,
But keep us sound and safe:
While Healths do go round,
No Malady's found,
The Maw-sick in the Morning,
For want of his wonted strain;
Is as a Warning,
To double it over again.
Let us maintain
Our Traffique with _Spain_,
And both the _Indies_ slight;
Give us their Wines,
Let them keep their Mines,
We'll pardon Eighty Eight:
There's more certain Wealth
Secur'd from stealth,
In one Pipe of Canary,
Than in an unfortunate Isle;
Let us be wary,
We do not our selves beguile.
_The_ LATIN _to the foregoing_ SONG.
_Sors sine visu,
Form·q; Risu,
Sint pro DÊmone;
HÊc malefica,
Ita venefica,
Fallax utraque;
Sors mea est fors,
Sin˘sque vecors,
Sed fraus nulla; tu toto
In fundo si veritas sit,
Potu Epoto,
Oceanus situs fit._
_Honor & lusus,
Stultis illusus,
Car‚ catenat‚,
H‚cque (ut fatur)
Catus necatur,
Morte non parat‚:
Dum vero GrÊcamur,
Non Renovamur,
Nam Aqua VitÊ vinum,
Vires spirit˙sque dat,
Idque dicunum,
A morte nos Elevat._
_Fam simus lÊti,
Spret‚ vi lethi,
Cordatissime:
Ut Combibones
(non ut gnathones)
Saxti-rectique:
Dum proculÊ Spument,
Morbi absument:
Ac manË Corpus Onustum,
PrÊ alienatione,
Acuit gustum,
Pro Iteratione_.
_Prestet quotannis,
Merks cum_ Hispanis,
India _sit sola;
Vinum prÊbeant,
Aurum teneant,
Absit spinola:
Sunt opes, pro certo,
Magis ‡ furto,
In Vini potione,
Quam Terra Incognit‚;
Pro cautione,
Ne nobis fit subdola._
_The Raree-show, from Father_ HOPKINS.
[Music]
From Father _Hopkins_, whose Vein did inspire him,
_Bays_ sends this Raree-show publick to view;
Prentices, Fops and their Footmen admire him,
Thanks Patron, Painter, and Monsieur _Grabeau_.
Each Actor on the Stage his luck bewailing,
Finds that his loss is Infallibly true;
_Smith_, _Nokes_, and _Leigh_ in a Feaver with railing,
Curse Poet, Painter, and Monsieur _Grabeau_.
_Betterton_, _Betterton_, thy Decorations,
And the Machines were well written we knew;
But all the Words were such stuff we want Patience,
And little better is Monsieur _Grabeu_.
D---- me says _Underhill_, I'm out two hundred,
Hoping that Rain-bows and Peacocks would do;
Who thought infallible _Tom_ could have blunder'd,
A Plague upon him and Monsieur _Grabeu_.
_Lane_ thou hast no Applause for thy Capers,
Tho' all without thee would make a Man spew;
And a Month hence will not pay for the Tapers,
Spite of _Jack Laureat_ and Monsieur _Grabeu_.
_Bays_ thou wouldst have thy Skill thought universal,
Tho' thy dull Ear be to Musick untrue;
Then whilst we strive to confute the _Rehearsal_,
Prithee learn thrashing of Monsieur _Grabeu_.
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