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Si bene commemini, cause sunt quinque bibendi; Hospitis adventus, præsens sitis, atque futura, Aut vini bonitas, aut quælibet altera causa.

If all be true that I do think,

There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine-a friend-or being dry-
Or lest we should be by and by-

Or any other reason why.

Attributed to PÈRE SIRMOND by MENAGE and DE LA MONNOYE. See Menagiana. Vol. I. P. 172. Given in ISAAC J. REEVE'S Wild Garland. Vol. II. Trans by HENRY AL

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DRICH.

Let the back and sides go bare, my boys,
Let the hands and the feet gang cold;
But give to belly, boys, beer enough,
Whether it be new or old.

The Beggar. Old English Folk Song. Version

in CECIL SHARPE's Folk-Songs from Somerset.

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