%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Content's a Treasure; / Or, The Jovial Loyalist. / A most pleasant New play-Song, greatly in Request, both at Court and / THEATRE. / Content's a Treasure, nothing more can be, / 'Tis all that can make happy thee or me; / Content and Loyalty, and harmless Mirth, / Are those that give to all our Joys a Birth: / Wine is a charm, 'tis armour-proof and male, / It quicks our Sences, when our Wits do fail; / Keeps us from Cold, and hushes all our Cares, / And in the midst of Dangers stiffles fears. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1664-1664 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/18/2011 30887

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R229010 5 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN a New Tune A-Begging We Will Go A New Tune There was a Jovial Begger A-Begging We Will Go There Was a Jovial Beggar We are jovial Topers UNKNOWN We are Jovial Topers We are Jovial Topers, / that no man evil think, And so Merry we will be, / Will be, will be, will be, / And so Merry we will be. Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 4: 8 Content's a Treasure; / Or, The Jovial Loyalist. / A most pleasant New play-Song, greatly in Request, both at Court and / THEATRE. / Content's a Treasure, nothing more can be, / 'Tis all that can make happy thee or me; / Content and Loyalty, and harmless Mirth, / Are those that give to all our Joys a Birth: / Wine is a charm, 'tis armour-proof and male, / It quicks our Sences, when our Wits do fail; / Keeps us from Cold, and hushes all our Cares, / And in the midst of Dangers stiffles fears. Content's a Treasure; Or, The Jovial Loyalist. A most pleasant New play-Song, greatly in Request, both at Court and THEATRE. Content's a Treasure, nothing more can be, 'Tis all that can make happy thee or me; Content and Loyalty, and harmless Mirth, Are those that give to all our Joys a Birth: Wine is a charm, 'tis armour-proof and male, It quicks our Sences, when our Wits do fail; Keeps us from Cold, and hushes all our Cares, And in the midst of Dangers stiffles fears. Content's a Treasure; Or, The Jovial Loyalist. A most pleasant New play-Song, greatly in Request, both at Court and THEATER. Content's a Treasure, nothing more can be, IT is all that can make happy thee or me; Content and Loyalty, and harmless Mirth, Are those that give to all our Joys a Birth: Wine is a charm, it is armor-proof and male, It quicks our Senses, when our Wits do fail; Keeps us from Cold, and hushes all our Cares, And in the midst of Dangers stifles fears. 1664-1664 J. Blare

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WE are Jovial Topers, that no man evil think, But study to be Merry, and drink off our Drink, And so Merry we will be, Will be, will be, will be, And so Merry we will be. No Plots we ere invented, against the Church and State, But still we keep our Loyalty, and shun all rash debate, And so Merry, etc.
In scarcity and plenty, we always are content, We ner repine at Providence, but take what it has sent, And so Merry, etc. When the weathers Rainy, or Cloudy, for to warm us, Each man turns off his glass or two which never yet could harm us, And so Merry we will be, Will be, will be, will be, and so merry we will be.
A Health or two we pass about, to those were sure are Loyal, But those that otherways we find, we generously defie all, And so merry, etc. We give to every man his due, no Mortal can say other, We live like kind Companions, and still love one another, And so merry, etc. Let the Worldlings sweat and moile for guilded Clay, we care not, Tis all but dross, we value not, then spend it Boys, and spare not And so merry, etc. Rich Nectar does inflame us, and makes our thoughts divine, All sorrows it does banish, theres nothing like brisk wine, And so merry, etc. If we have our Mistris, she still does make us jolly, Tis Clarret or Canary, that makes us see mens folly, And so merry, etc. The world it is an Ocean, wherein all men are Sailing, Then briskly drink about Boys, and let there be no failing, And so merry, etc. Come fill us tother Bumper, we see no cause to part yet,
Wine is the only Jewel, that ever charmd my heart yet, And so merry, etc. Though fortune it does frown, wel ner be melancholly, Tis vain to grieve for ought below, rash sororws but a folly, And so merry, etc. Come fill us tother Bumper Boys, let it be just a Brimmer, And he that will not pledge it, a Whigg is, or a Trimmer, And so merry, etc. To Charles our King, his gracious Queen and to his Royal Brother, Come fill it up again Boys, heres to the Prince another, And so merry, etc. We have the world at will boys, theres nothing we can lack, Since our Cups with Nectar flow, tis Nectar we call Sack, And so merry, etc. Theres none so happy live as we, on us delights do showre, We live from hate and envy free, more safe then those in power, And so merry we will be, Will be, will be, will be, And so merry we will be.
FINIS. Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge