Suction:
I say this evening we'll all get drunk. I say dash. An Anthem, an Anthem!
"Lo the Bat with Leathern wing
Winking & blinking
Winking & blinking
Winking & blinking
Like Doctor Johnson."
Quid:
" 'O ho' Said Doctor Johnson
To Scipio Africanus
'If you don't own me a Philosopher
I'll kick your Roman Anus'"
Suction:
" 'A ha' To Doctor Johnson Said Scipio Africanus.
'Lift up my Roman Petticoat
And kiss my Roman Anus.'
Grand Chorus:
"And the Cellar goes down with a Step."
"And the Cellar goes down with a Step."
Scopprell:
"Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Hooooo my poooooor siiides! I I should die if I was to live here. Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho."
1st Voice:
Want Matches
2nd Voice:
Yes Yes Yes
1st Voice:
Want Matches
2nd Voice:
No----------
1st Voice:
Want Matches
2nd Voice:
Yes Yes Yes
1st Voice:
Want Matches
2nd Voice:
No----------
Here was Great confusion & disorder.
Aradobo said that the boys in the street sing something very pritty & funny.
"About London?"
"O no, about Matches."
Then Mrs Nannicantipot sung:
I cry my matches as far as Guild hall
God bless the duke & his aldermen all.
Then sung Scopprell:
I ask the Gods no more
no more no more
Then Said Suction, "Come Mr Lawgiver: your song" and the Lawgiver sung
As I walkd forth one may morning
To see the fields so pleasant & so gay
O there did I spy a young maiden sweet
Among the Violets that smell so sweet
Smell so sweet
Smell so sweet
Among the Violets that smell so sweet...
"Hang your Violets heres your Rum & water - sweeter! O ay" said Tilly Lally.
"Joe Bradley & I was going along one day in the Sugar house. Joe Bradley saw - for he had but one eye - saw a treacle Jar. So he goes of his blind side, & dips his hand up to the shoulder in treacle. 'Here I'll lick lick lick' said he. "Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, For he had but one eye".
"Ha Ha Ha Ho" then sung Scopprell:
And I ask the Gods no more
no more no more
no more no more
Miss Gittipin said "You sing like a harpsichord. Let your bounty descend to our fair ears and favour us with a fine song."
Then she sung:
This frog he would a wooing ride
Kitty alone, Kitty alone
This frog he would a wooing ride
Kitty alone & I.
Sing cock I carry Kitty alone Kitty alone, Kitty alone
Cock I cary Kitty alone
Kitty alone & I.
"Charming, truly elegant." said Scopprell.
"And I ask the gods no more"
"Hang your Serious Songs," said Sipsop & he sung as follows:
Fa ra so bo ro
Fa ra bo ra
Sa ba ra ra ba rare roro
Sa ra ra ra bo ro ro ro
Radara
Sarapodo no flo ro
"Hang Italian songs, lets have English" said Quid. "Sing a Mathematical Song, Obtuse Angle"
Then he sung:
English Genius for ever here I go
Hail Matrimony made of Love
To thy wide gates how great a drove
On purpose to be yok'd do come
Widows & maids & Youths also
That lightly trip on beauty's toe
Or sit on beauty's bum
Hail fingerfooted lovely Creatures
The females of our human Natures
Formed to suckle all Mankind
Tis you that come in time of need
Without you we shoud never Breed
Or any Comfort find
For if a Damsel's blind or lame
Or Nature's hand has crooked her frame
Or if she's deaf or is wall eyed
Yet if her heart is well inclined
Some tender lover she shall find
That panteth for a Bride
The universal Poultice this:
To cure whatever is amiss In damsel or in Widow gay,
It makes them smile it makes them skip
Like Birds just cured of the pip
They chirp & hop away
Then come ye Maidens come ye Swains
Come & be eased of all your pains
In Matrimony's Golden cage--
"I'll none of this. Go & be hanged" said Scopprel. "How can you have the face to make game of Matrimony?"
"What, you skipping flea, how dare ye? I'll dash you through your chair" says the Cynic
"This Quid", cries out Miss Gittipin, "always spoils good company in this manner & its a shame."
Then Quid calld upon Obtuse Angle for a Song & he wiping his face &, looking on the corner of the ceiling, sang:
To be or not to be
Of great capacity
Like Sir Isaac Newton
Or Locke or Doctor South
Or Sherlock upon death
I'd rather be Sutton
For he did build a house
For aged men & youth
With walls of brick & stone
He furnishd it within
With whatever he could win
And all his own
He drew out of the Stocks
His money in a box
And sent his servant
To Green the Bricklayer
And to the Carpenter
He was so fervent
The chimneys were three score
The windows many more
And for convenience
He sinks & gutters made
And all the way he pav'd
To hinder pestilence
Was not this a good man
Whose life was but a span
Whose name was Sutton
As Locke or Doctor South
Or Sherlock upon Death
Or Sir Isaac Newton
The Lawgiver was very attentive & begged to have it sung over again & again till the company were tired & insisted on the Lawgiver singing song himself, which he readily complied with:
This city & this country has brought forth many mayors
To sit in state & give forth laws out of their old oak chairs
With face as brown as any nut with drinking of strong ale
Good English hospitality O then it did not fail
With scarlet gowns & broad gold lace would make a yeoman sweat
With stockings rolled above their knees & shoes as black as jet
With eating beef & drinking beer O they were stout & hale
Good English hospitality O then it did not fail
Thus sitting at the table wide the Mayor & Aldermen
Were fit to give law to the city each eat as much as ten
The hungry poor enterd the hall to eat good beef & ale
Good English hospitality O then it did not fail
Here they gave a shout & the company broke up.
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