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1720
The Delights of the Bottle: or, the Compleat Vintner. With the Humours of [List of types]. A Merry Poem. To which is added, A South-Sea Song upon the late Bubbles. By the Author of the Cavalcade. [Motto]. London. Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill. MDCCXX. [B. M.]
Edward Ward. pp. 3-54. o.c.
Hudibrastic.
The following passage is from the introductory canto:
No Lover sure can die for Beauty,
Or pine for Joys above the Shoe-tye;
No Hero hack or hew his Way
Thro' bloody Storms, for little Pay,
Nor any mortal Soul incline
To Love, or Brav'ry, but by Wine;
Without it, we should ne'er have heard
Of this wise Lord, that wond'rous Bard,
Or known the Names of Politician,
Priest, Poet, Lawyer, or Physician;
For, when we read of mighty Things
Perform'd by Heroes or by Kings,
Believe they quaff'd off briming Goblets,
Before they lac'd their Iron Doublets,
And, Dutchman like, would never fight
A stroke, until their Hearts were light; . . . [pp. 13-14]
The other three cantos are entitled "The Compleat Vintner," "The Description of a Tavern," and "The Tavern Tormentors."
No Lover sure can die for Beauty,
Or pine for Joys above the Shoe-tye;
No Hero hack or hew his Way
Thro' bloody Storms, for little Pay,
Nor any mortal Soul incline
To Love, or Brav'ry, but by Wine;
Without it, we should ne'er have heard
Of this wise Lord, that wond'rous Bard,
Or known the Names of Politician,
Priest, Poet, Lawyer, or Physician;
For, when we read of mighty Things
Perform'd by Heroes or by Kings,
Believe they quaff'd off briming Goblets,
Before they lac'd their Iron Doublets,
And, Dutchman like, would never fight
A stroke, until their Hearts were light; . . . [pp. 13-14]
The other three cantos are entitled "The Compleat Vintner," "The Description of a Tavern," and "The Tavern Tormentors."
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