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" I have no rost , but a nut brawne toste , And a cra , b laid in the fyre , A little breade shall do me steade , Much breade I not desyre .
No frost nor snow , nor winde , I trowe , Can hurte mee , if I wolde , I am so wrapt and throwly lapt , Of jolly good ale and olde . Chorus , —Badke and syde go bare , go bare , Sec .
ei And Tyb my wife , that as her lyfe , Loveth well good ale to seeke , Full oft drynkes shee , tyll ye may see The teares run downe her cheeke . Then doth she trowle to me the bowle , Even as a * mault-worm sholde , And sayth , sweeteharte , I took my parte , Of this joly good ale and olde . Choms . —Back and syde go bare , go bare , & c .
" Now let them drynke , tyll they nod and wihke , Even as goode fellowes sholde doe , They shall not mysse to have the blisse , Good ale doth bring men to . And all poore soules that have scowred bowles , Or have them lustily trolde , — God save the lyves of them and their wives , Whether they be young or olde . Chorus . —Backe and syde go bare , go bare , & c . "
Coffee-houses had each their day of popularity , but perhaps the most highly favoured of all was "Will ' s Coffee-house , situated at the end of Bow-street , and on the north side of Russell-street , Coventgarden , where Dryden reigned supreme as poet and critic . " Thither , " says a modern writer , " went the aspirant after fame , to obtain subscribers for his forthcoming publication , or to secure the approving nod of some literary Jupiter ; and there many an offspring of the
muse was strangled in the birth , or if suffered to live , treated with merciless severity . " How we should have liked to have lived in those olden days , to have seen and talked to that sparkling wit Congreve , to have stood beside Dryden sitting in his " summer chair" on the balcony , and taken a pinch from his snuff-box , and to have looked at that old sinner Pepys leaving his unfortunate wife waiting his arrival in her sanctum , while he listened eagerly to the
midnight conversation for a note to adorn his diary . In the same street as "Will ' s lived Davies , the bookseller , at whose house Bos well , the biographer of Johnson—a biographer who , unlike many in the present day , has supplied posterity with an unfailing fund of amusement—became acquainted with his hero . c ' The very place , " he says ,
" where I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the illustrious subject of this work , deserves to be particularly marked . It was No . 8 . I never pass by without feeling reverence and regret . " It was in Rose-street , not far from this , that Dryden was waylaid one night by three persons , paid by Lord Rochester to execute on him punishment for the composition of a lampoon ; suspicion of this mis-
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" I have no rost , but a nut brawne toste , And a cra , b laid in the fyre , A little breade shall do me steade , Much breade I not desyre .
No frost nor snow , nor winde , I trowe , Can hurte mee , if I wolde , I am so wrapt and throwly lapt , Of jolly good ale and olde . Chorus , —Badke and syde go bare , go bare , Sec .
ei And Tyb my wife , that as her lyfe , Loveth well good ale to seeke , Full oft drynkes shee , tyll ye may see The teares run downe her cheeke . Then doth she trowle to me the bowle , Even as a * mault-worm sholde , And sayth , sweeteharte , I took my parte , Of this joly good ale and olde . Choms . —Back and syde go bare , go bare , & c .
" Now let them drynke , tyll they nod and wihke , Even as goode fellowes sholde doe , They shall not mysse to have the blisse , Good ale doth bring men to . And all poore soules that have scowred bowles , Or have them lustily trolde , — God save the lyves of them and their wives , Whether they be young or olde . Chorus . —Backe and syde go bare , go bare , & c . "
Coffee-houses had each their day of popularity , but perhaps the most highly favoured of all was "Will ' s Coffee-house , situated at the end of Bow-street , and on the north side of Russell-street , Coventgarden , where Dryden reigned supreme as poet and critic . " Thither , " says a modern writer , " went the aspirant after fame , to obtain subscribers for his forthcoming publication , or to secure the approving nod of some literary Jupiter ; and there many an offspring of the
muse was strangled in the birth , or if suffered to live , treated with merciless severity . " How we should have liked to have lived in those olden days , to have seen and talked to that sparkling wit Congreve , to have stood beside Dryden sitting in his " summer chair" on the balcony , and taken a pinch from his snuff-box , and to have looked at that old sinner Pepys leaving his unfortunate wife waiting his arrival in her sanctum , while he listened eagerly to the
midnight conversation for a note to adorn his diary . In the same street as "Will ' s lived Davies , the bookseller , at whose house Bos well , the biographer of Johnson—a biographer who , unlike many in the present day , has supplied posterity with an unfailing fund of amusement—became acquainted with his hero . c ' The very place , " he says ,
" where I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the illustrious subject of this work , deserves to be particularly marked . It was No . 8 . I never pass by without feeling reverence and regret . " It was in Rose-street , not far from this , that Dryden was waylaid one night by three persons , paid by Lord Rochester to execute on him punishment for the composition of a lampoon ; suspicion of this mis-