...orthodox, would add from the same convivial prelate's farce-comedy of " Gammer Gurton's Needle : "— " I cannot eat but little meat My stomach is not good...think that I can drink With him that wears a hood." A pleasant cheerful glass or two, Tom was wont to say, would hurt nobody, and he could toss off a horn...

...And a-begging we will go. ANONYMOUS. GOOD ALE. ГЗЗ But, sure, I think that I can drink With any 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...

...containing a drinking-song of perennial reputation. The bishop, it would seem, was dyspeptic — ' 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 nothing am a-cold ; I stuff my skin so full...

...Oysters." Nearly an hour the• contest raged. Biggins yielded first. But though vanquished, he sang: " I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But I do think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Back and side go bare, go bare, ." " We'll...

...verse: "/ cannot eate but lytle meate, My stomacke is not good, But sure I thinke that I can drinke With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a colde, I stuff my skyn so full within. Of July good ale and oide. Chorus Backe and syde...