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LEADER. LET no cares now hover o'er us Let the wine unsparing run! Wilt thou swell our merry chorus? Hast thou all thy duty done? SOLO. Two young folks--the thing is curious-- Loved each other; yesterday Both quite mild, to-day quite furious, Next day, quite the deuce to pay! If her neck she there was stooping, He must here needs pull his hair. I revived their spirits drooping, And they're now a happy pair. CHORUS. Surely we for wine may languish! Let the bumper then go round! For all sighs and groans of anguish Thou to-day in joy hast drown'd. SOLO. Why, young orphan, all this wailing? "Would to heaven that I were dead! For my guardian's craft prevailing Soon will make me beg my bread." Knowing well the rascal genus, Into court I dragg'd the knave; Fair the judges were between us, And the maiden's wealth did save. CHORUS. Surely we for wine may languish! Let the bumper then go round! For all sighs and groans of anguish Thou to-day in joy hast drown'd. SOLO. To a little fellow, quiet, Unpretending and subdued, Has a big clown, running riot, Been to-day extremely rude. I bethought me of my duty, And my courage swell'd apace, So I spoil'd the rascal's beauty, Slashing him across the face. CHORUS. Surely we for wine may languish! Let the bumper then go round! For all sighs and groans of anguish Thou to-day in joy hast drown'd. SOLO. Brief must be my explanation, For I really have done nought. Free from trouble and vexation, I a landlord's business bought. There I've done, with all due ardour, All that duty order'd me; Each one ask'd me for the larder, And there was no scarcity. CHORUS. Surely we for wine may languish! Let the bumper then go round! For all sighs and groans of anguish Thou to-day in joy hast drown'd. LEADER. Each should thus make proclamation Of what he did well to-day! That's the match whose conflagration Should inflame our tuneful lay. Let it be our precept ever To admit no waverer here! For to act the good endeavour, None but rascals meek appear. CHORUS. Surely we for wine may languish! Let the bumper then go round! For all sighs and groans of anguish We have now in rapture drown'd. TRIO. Let each merry minstrel enter, He's right welcome to our hall! 'Tis but with the self?tormentor That we are not liberal; For we fear that his caprices, That his eye-brows dark and sad, That his grief that never ceases Hide an empty heart, or bad. CHORUS. No one now for wine shall languish! Here no minstrel shall be found, Who all sighs and groans of anguish, Has not first in rapture drown'd! 1810.
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