...printed the song, is certainly of an earlier date than the oldest known edition of the play. (1575.)* "I CANNOT eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure, I think that I can drink, With any that wears a hood. Tho' I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a cold, I stuff my skin so full...

...comedy Gammer Gurton's Needle, which contained the bacchanalian chant, I cannot eat but little meat, lly stomach is not good ; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. That fine old song of The Ex-ale-tation of Ale, draws one of the earliest distinctions between Ijcer...

...When the beards waveth alle. ADAM DAvIE, 1312. Life of Alexander. H BISHOP STILL (JOHN). 1543-1607, T CANNOT eat but little meat, -•- My stomach is not...think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Gaininer Gurtoris Ncedlt. Act ii. Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold ; But,...

...It was first printed in 1575, and is entitled ' Jollj Good Ale,' and thus runs the burthen : — ' I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good...wears a hood. ' Though I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a-cold ; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and side, go bare,...

...hand go cold : But belly, God send thee good ale enough, "Whether it be new or old. I cannot eat, bat little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think,...that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a cold; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and side go bare,...

...transition will be thought too violent, from the poetry of the puritans to a convivial and ungodlic ballad. I cannot eat, but little meat, My stomach is not good...think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood. [A monk.] Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a coldc ; I stuife my skin so full within,...

...thought too violent, from the poetry of the puritans to a convivial and vngodlic ballad. I cannot cat, but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure...think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood. [A mock.] Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a colde ; I stuiTc my skin so full within,...

...enough, Whether it be new or old. I cannot eat, \>\it little meat, My stomach is not good; But sore , sir. [Exit. Kit. Well ; yet my troubled spirit's somewhat eased, Though not reposed in I am nothing a cold; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly çood ale and old. Back and bide go bare,...

...convivial and ungodly ballad : I cannot eat but little meat, My ftomach is not good ; But Гиге I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a colde ; I ftuflFe my ikin fo full within, Of joly goode ale and olde. Backe and fide...

...But, bellye, God send thce good ale yenough, Whether it be newe or olde. I cannot eat but lytle meate, My stomach is not good, But sure I think that I can drynke With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a coldc : I stuff...