The clarret drinkers song, or, The good fellows design by a person of quality. Oldham, John, 1653-1683. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A53286 of text R33636 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing O233). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A53286 Wing O233 ESTC R33636 13541682 ocm 13541682 100087 2248495317

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A53286) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 100087) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1553:20) The clarret drinkers song, or, The good fellows design by a person of quality. Oldham, John, 1653-1683. Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. 1 sheet (2 p.) [s.n.], London printed : 1680. In verse. Caption title. Attributed by Wing to Oldham; also attributed by NUC pre-1956 imprints to Thomas Brown. Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng eebo The clarret drinkers song:, or, The good fellows design. By a person of quality. Oldham, John, 1680 2 478 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2002-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-02 Sampled and proofread 2003-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Clarret Drinker's SONG : OR , The Good Fellows Design . By a Person of Quality . APOX of the Fooling and Plotting of late , What a Pother and Stir has it kept in the State ? Let the Rabble run mad with Suspicions and Fears ; Let 'em Scuffle and Iarr , till they go by the Ears ; Their Grievances never shall trouble my Pate , So I can but enjoy my dear Bottle at quiet . What Coxcombs were those , who would barter their Ease , And their Necks , for a Toy , a thin Wafer and Mass ? At Old Tyburn they never had needed to swing , Had they been but true Subjects to Drink , and their King : A Friend and a Bottle is all my Design , H 'as no room for Treason , that 's top-full of Wine . I mind not the Members and Makers of Laws , Let 'em Sit or Prorogue as His Majesty please ; Let 'em damn us to Woollen , I 'll never repine At my Lodging when dead , so alive I have Wine . Yet oft in my Drink I can hardly forbear , To Curse 'em , for making my Claret so dear . I mind not grave Asses , who idly debate About Right and Succession , the Trifles of State ; We've a good King already , and he deserves laughter , That will trouble his head with who shall come after . Come here 's to his health , and I wish he may be As free from all care and all trouble as we . What care I how Leagues with the Hollander go , Or Intrigues betwixt Sidney and Monsieur d'Avaux ; What concerns it my Drinking if Cazall be sold , If the Conquerour takes it by storming or Gold ; Good Bourdeaux alone is the place that I mind , And when the Fleet 's coming , I pray for a Wind. The Bully of France , that aspires to Renown , By dull Cutting of Throats and vent'ring his own : Let him fight and be damn'd , and make Matches and treat , To afford News-mongers and Coffee house chat : He 's but a brave Wretch , whilst I am more free , More safe , and a thousand times happier than he . Come he or the Pope , or the Devil to boot ; Or come Faggot and Stake , I care not a Groat : Never think that in Smithfield I Porters will heat : No I swear Mr. Fox pray excuse me for that . I 'll drink in Defiance of Gibbet and Halter , This is the Profession that never will alter . FINIS .

LONDON , Printed 1680.