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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1720 Excerpt: ...my own. As thou art fair, and sweeter than the Air, That dallies on July's brave Roses; Now let me be to thy Garden a Key, That the Flowers of Virgins incloses: And And I will not be too rough unto thee, For my Nature to mildness is prone; Do no less than undress, and unlace all apace, For this Night I'll make bold with my own. IAm a Jolly Toper, I am a raged Soph. Known by the Pimples in my Face, with taking Bumpers off, And a Toping we will go, we'll go, we'll go, And a Toping we will go. Come let's sit down together, and take our fill of Beer, Away with all disputes, for we'll have no Wrangling And a Toping, drv. here, With clouds of Tobacco we'll make our Noddles clear, We'll be as great as Princes, when our Heads are full And a Toping, &c. of Beer, With Juggs, Muggs, and Pitchers, and Bellarmines of Dash'd lightly with a little, a very little Ale, Stale, And a Toping, &c. A Fig for the Spaniard, and for the King of France, And Heaven preserve our Juggs, and Muggs, and Q--n And a Toping, from all mischance, Against the Presbyterians, pray give me leave to rail, Who ne'er had thirsted for Kings Blood, had they been And a Toping, dw. Drunk with stale, And against the Low-church Saints, who slily play their part, Who rail at the Dissenters, yet love them in their Heart, And a toping, &c. Here's a Health to the Queen, let's Bumpers take in hand, And may Prince G--'s Roger grow stiff again and stand, And a Toping, &c. Oh how we toss about the never-failing Cann, We drink and piss, and piss and drink, and drink to piss And a Toping, &c. again, Oh that my Belly it were a Tun of stall, My Cock were turn'd into a Tap, to run when I did And a Toping, &c. call, Of all sorts of Topers, a Soph is far the best, For 'till he can neither go nor ...
