...Then one in the company favours us with a DRINKING SONG. AlK—Yorkshire Ale is my delight. I can not eat, but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But...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,...

...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...

...wind, I trow, Can hurt me if I wold, I am so wrapt, and thoroughly lapt In jolly good ale and old, — I stuff my skin so full within, Of jolly good ale and old." Or this, — "Your wines and brandies I detest, Here's richer juice from barley press'd. It is the...

...but lytle mcate, My stomacke is not good, But sure I thinke that I can drinke With him that weares a hood. Though I go bare take ye no care, I nothing am a colde, I stuff my skyn so full within, Of joly good ale and olde. Chorus. Backe and syde go bare,...

...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 go bare,...