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REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE TO GEORGE II. 645
Let charming beauty's health go round, For Bacchus is a friend to Love.
In whom celestial joys are found, And he that will this health deny,
And may confusion still pursue Down among the dead men let him lie.
The senseless woman-hating crew ; .» , , . ,, . . . .
° ' May love and wine their rites maintain,
And they that woman's health deny, , , ,, . ., , ,
' •" And their united pleasures reign,
Down among the dead men let them lie ! „ T , ., „ , , . x , , ,
While Bacchus treasure crowns the board,
In smiling Bacchus' joys I'll roll, We'll sing the joys that both afford ;
Deny no pleasure to my soul ; And they that won't with us comply,
Let Bacchus' health round briskly move, Down among the dead men let them lie.
SALLY IN OUR ALLEY.
This extremely popular ballad was written and composed by Henry Carey.
Carey's tune is to be found in his Musical Century, ii. 32 ; in Walsh's Dancing
Master, vol. ii. 1719; in Tlie Beggars' Opera; The Devil to pay ; The Fashion-
able Lady ; The Merry Gobbler ; Love in a Riddle ; The Rival Milliners ; and
on numerous half-sheet songs.
The following is the author's account of the origin of the ballad : —
" A vulgar error having prevailed among many persons, who imagine Sally
Salisbury the subject of this ballad, the author begs leave to undeceive and assure
them it has not the least allusion to her, he being a stranger to her very name at the
time this song was composed : for, as innocence and virtue were ever the boundaries
of his muse, so, in this little poem, lie had no other view than to set forth the beauty
of a chaste and disinterested passion, even in the lowest class of human life. The
real occasion was this : a shoemaker's 'prentice, making holiday with his sweetheart,
treated her with a sight of Bedlam, the puppet-shows, the flying-chairs, and all the
elegancies of Moorfields, from whence proceeding to the farthing-pye-house, he gave
her a collation of buns, cheesecakes, gammon of bacon, stuffed beef, and bottled ale,
through all which scenes the author dodged them. Charmed with the simplicity of
their courtship, he drew from what he had witnessed this little sketch of nature ; but,
being then young and obscure, he was very much ridiculed by some of bis acquaint-
ance for this performance, which nevertheless made its way into the polite world, and
amply recompensed him by the applause of the divine Addison, who was pleased more
than once to mention it with approbation."
Among the songs printed to Carey's tune are the following : —
1. " Sally's Lamentation ; or, The Answer to Sally ; " beginning —
" What pity 'tis so bright a thought I little thought, when you began
Should e'er become so common ; To write of charming Sally,
At ev'ry corner brought to naught That ev'ry brat would sing so soon,
By ev'ry bawling woman. ' She lives in our alley.' "
2. " Sally in our Alley to Billy in Piccadilly ; with proper graces to the tune."
" Of all the lads that are so smart He is the darling of my heart,
There's none I love like Billy ; And he lives in Piccadilly," &c.
3. " Sally in her own cloaths ; " beginning —
" Of all the mauxes in the land
There's none I hate like Sally."
4. " Sally rivall'd by Country Molly ; " commencing —
" Since Sally's charms so long have been Fray give me leave to raise the song
The theme of court and city, And praise a girl more pretty."