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5.95 R173010 1 Fond Boy Fond Boy Fond Boy VVE are the bold Suffolk boon revelling Boys,/ Who will fill both the Tavern & Ale-house with noise; date from content: Threatened French invasion of England Pepys 5.95 Rollins (1) 6:3-5; Wing B3737[A]. Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 5: 95 The Boon Companions./ OR,/ The Merry Loyal Boys of SUFFOLK's/ JOVIAL HEALTH. The Boon Companions. OR, The Merry Loyal Boys of SUFFOLK's JOVIAL HEALTH. The Boon Companions. Or, the Merry Loyal Boys of Suffolk's Jovial Health. 1/2 sheet folio, 257 x 185 all edges cropped, damaged surface cast fleurons, vertical rules 1692 Prined for Charles Bates at the White-/ Hart in West-Smithfield. Charles Bates Weinstein

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WE are the bold Suffolk boon revelling Boys, Who will fill both the Tavern & Ale-house with noise; For the Liquor of life we do dearly adore, When the bottles are empty we'll thunder for more, For to make our hearts chearful we'll merrily sing, With a rousing full Bumper to Caesar, our King. We'll rise with the Morning, keep pace with the Sun, We'll begin with a gallon, and end with a tun, For there's nothing like Drinking to chear up the soul, Then about with a Bumper, a cherishing bowl; All the Cares of the world are but madness, you know, We will drown them in Rivers where Nector does flow. Be nimble brave Tapster, and bring us more beer, Let not honest good fellows sit lazily here, Here's a bumper to him that is true to his friend, And there's more money got than we ever shall spend; Therefore bring us a paper of Excellent Fogo, That we here may perfume the whole house with a Hogo. In matters of State we will ne'er be concern'd, We're a pack of boon fellows, who only have learn'd Here the true way of Drinking, and that is our pride, Therefore let it come in like a full flowing tide, And let them go to War that takes pleasure therein, We do think it more safe to sleep in a whole skin. Tho' the French they were landed, as some have recounted And tho' they had a hundred large Cannons all mounted, Likewise Lewis of France for to head these fine fellows, Yet the devil a foot would we stur from the Ale-house, But we'd each man be arm'd with a pipe and his pot, Thus we'd smother and drown'd the Monsieur on the spot.
If Monsieur should venture to come on this shore, From the Ale-house & Tavern our bombs they should roar, While our smoak from the windows like vapors shall fly, Or a thick misty cloud for to darken the sky: Thus we'd stand to our drink like each man to his gun, And it is not the French that shoud make us to run. Thus we are good subjects and friends to the Crown, In letting full bumpers go merrily down; And a new sort of Custom we constantly raise, For the smoaking his Nose e'ry good fellow pays, Thus our smoaking does cause the Kings Custom to rise, And the fuddling advances the Royal Excise. We needs must acknowledge we take no delight For to go to the Wars there to quarrel and fight, We had rather in love stay at home with our Wives, And let them go that never did value their lives, Yet we'll drink a full bumper now merrily round, A good Health to the King with our knees to the ground Here['s] a Health to true hearts that are honest and just, Who was never unfaithful nor false to their trust, Such as those we admire above any other, I hope you will pledge this good health honest brother, It is better for us to sit honestly sotting, Than to live to be hang'd for Cabelling and Plotting.
Printed for Charles Bates at the White- Hart in West-Smithfield.