StoryTitle("caps", "Jolly~Good Ale and~Old") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I cannot eat but little meat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My stomach is not good;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But sure I think that I can drink", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With him that wears a hood.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though I go bare, take ye no care,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I nothing am a-cold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I stuff my skin so full within", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of jolly good ale and old.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Back and side go bare, go bare;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Both foot and hand go cold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whether it be new or old.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I love no roast but a nut-brown toast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a crab laid in the fire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A little bread shall do me stead;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Much bread I not desire.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No frost nor snow, no wind, I trow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Can hurt me if I wold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am so wrapp'd and thoroughly lapp'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of jolly good ale and old.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Back and side go bare, go bare;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Both foot and hand go cold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whether it be new or old.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Tib, my wife, that as her life", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Loveth well good ale to seek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Full oft drinks she till ye may see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The tears run down her cheek:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then doth she trowl to me the bowl", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Even as a maltworm should,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And saith, \"Sweetheart, I took my part", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of this jolly good ale and old.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Back and side go bare, go bare;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Both foot and hand go cold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whether it be new or old.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now let them drink till they nod and wink,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Even as good fellows should do;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They shall not miss to have the bliss", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Good ale doth bring men to;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all poor souls that have scour'd bowls", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or have them lustily troll'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "God save the lives of them and their wives,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whether they be young or old.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Back and side go bare, go bare;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Both foot and hand go cold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whether it be new or old.", "") ?>
Poet("John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells", "1543?-1608") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>