 | Songs, Carols, and other Miscellaneous Poems, from the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace book |  |
101. [Ho, butler, ho!]
How, butler, how! Bevis, a towt!
Fill þe boll, jentill butler, & let þe cup rowght!
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Jentill butler, bellamy,Fyll þe boll by þe eye
Þat we may drynk by & by,
With how, butler, how! Bevis, a towt!
Fill þe boll, butler, & let þe cup rowght!
2
Here is mete for vs all,Both for gret & for small;
119
With how, butler, how! Bevis, a towght!
Fill þe boll, butler, & lett þe cupe rowght!
3
I am so dry, I can not spek;I am nygh choked with my mete;
I trow þe butler be a-slepe,
With how, butler, how! Bevis, a towght!
Fill þe boll, butler, [& let þe cup rowght!]
4
Butler, butler, fill þe boll,Or ellis I beshrewe thy noll,
I trow we must þe bell toll,
With how, butler, how! Bevis, a towght!
Fill þe boll, [butler, & let þe cup rowght!]
5
Iff þe butlers name be Water,I wold he were a galow-claper;
But if he bryng vs drynk þe raþer,
With how, butler, how! Bevis, a towght!
Fill [þe boll, butler, & let þe cup rowght!]
Explicit.
| Songs, Carols, and other Miscellaneous Poems, from the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace book | |