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RKIGNS OF JAMES I. AND CHARLES I. 289
To plump Bess, her sister, I drink down this Hot Coles is on fire, and fain would be
cup: [up; quench'd; [drench 'd:
Birlackins, my masters, each man must take't As well as his horses, the groom must be
'Tis foul play, I bar it, to simper and sup. Who's else? let Wm speak, if his thirst he'd
When such a health goes round. have stench'd.
Or have his health go round.
And now, helter-skelter, to th'rest of the house:
The most are good fellows, and love to carouse ; -^"'^ """' '° ^^ women, who must not be coy :
Who's not, may go sneck-up ; ^ he's not worth a A glass, Mistress Gary, you know's but a toy;
louse Come, come, Mistress Sculler, no perdonnex
That stops a health i' th' round. ^^V'
It must, it must go round.
To th' clerk, so he'll learn to drink in the morn ; [sop ;
To Heynous, that stares when he has quaft up Dame Nell, so you'll drink, we'll allow you a
his horn ; Up with't, Mary Smith, in your draught never
To Philip, by whom good ale ne'er was forlorn ; stop ; [drop,
These lads can drink a round. Law, there now. Nan German has left ne'er a
And so must all the round.
John Chandler! come on, here's some warm
beer for you ; Jane, Joan, Goody Lee, great Meg, and the
A health to the man that this liquor did brew : less,
Why Hewet ! there's for thee ; nay take't, 'tis Youmustnotbe squeamish, but do as did Bess :
thy due, How th' others are nam'd, if I could but guess,
But see that it go roiuid. I'd call them to the round.
And now, for my farewell, I drink up this quart.
To you, lads and lasses, e'en with all my heart ;
May I find you ever, as now when we part.
Each health still going round.
MALL PEATLY.
This tune is contained in Bellerophon, of Lust tot Wyshed, Amsterdam, 1622 ;
in the seventh and later editions of The Dancing Master ; in Apollo's Banquet ;
and in several of the ballad-operas.
In Bellerophon, the first part is in common time, and the second in triple, like
a cushion dance ; but it is not so in any of the above-named English copies,
which, however, are of later date.
D'Urfey wrote to it a song entitled Gillian of Croydon (see Pills to purge
Melancholy, ii. 46), and it is to be found under that name in some of the ballad-
operas, such as The Fashionable Lady, or Harlequin^ s Opera, 1730 ; Sylvia, or
The Country Burial, 1731; The Jealous Cloim, 1730; &c. There are also several
songs to it in the Collection of State Songs sung at the Mug-houses in London and
Westminster, 1716. In Apollo's Banquet, the tune is entitled The Old Marinett,
or Mall Peatly ; in Gay's Achilles, Moll Peatly.
Mall is the old abbreviation of Mary. (See Ben Jonson's Miglish Grammar.)
In Bound about our coal-fire, or Christmas Entertainments (7th edit., 1734), it
is said, in allusion to Christmas, " This time of year bemg cold and frosty,
" Sir Walter Scott prints this "sneake-up:" I sup- equivalent to "go and be hanged."
pose it should be "snecke-up" — a common expression,