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R33636 1 NONE Let Caesar Live Long A POX of the Fooling and Plotting of late, / What a Pother and Stir has it kept in the State? Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 1: 1 The Clarret Drinker's / SONG: / OR, / The Good Fellows Design. The Clarret Drinker’s SONG: OR, The Good Fellows Design. The Claret Drinker's SONG: OR, The Good Fellow's Design. Oldham, John 1680-1680

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A POX 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 Jarr, 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
(2) 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.