Tixall Poetry/A Song for Drinking
For other versions of this work, see The Fairies' Song.
A Song for Drinking.
Would you be a man of fashion?
Would you lead a life divine?
Take a little dram of passion,
In a lusty dose of wine.
If the nymph have no compassion,
Vain it is to sigh and grone,
Love was but put in for fashion,
Wine will doe the worke alone.