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The poetical and dramatic works of Sir Charles Sedley

Collected and Edited from the Old Editions: With a preface on the text, explanatory and textual notes, an appendix containing works of doubtful authenticity, and a bibliography: By V. de Sola Pinto

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CXXXV
THE TOPER

A Song

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

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Let's Tope and be Merry,
Be Jolly and Cheary;
Since here is good Wine, good Wine.

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Let's laugh at the Fools,
Who live by dull Rules,
And at us Good-Fellows repine.

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Here, here, are Delights,
To amuse the dull Nights,
And equal a Man with a God;
To enliven the Clay,
Drive all Care away,
Without it a Man's but a Clod.

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Then let us be willing
To spend t'other Shilling,
For Money we know is but Dirt;
It suits no Design,
Like paying for Wine,
T'other Bottle will do us no hurt.