“Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale,
And sing enamour’d of the nut-brown maid.”
— James Beattie, The Minstrel
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- Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, and sing
- So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you
- Then to the spicy nut-brown ale.
- But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss,
- Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing
- “Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing
- Merry met, and merry part,
- “Merry met, and merry part, I drink to thee with all my heart”
- Landlord fill the flowing bowl, until it doth run over
- “No free woman should be allowed any more than one maid to