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1. A curse on all cares

First Line:
A curse on all cares
Last Line:
Or be merry at least | For we will be dull and heavy no more | Since wine does increase and there's claret good store
DMI number:
2718

2. A drunken old Scot by the rigorous sentence

First Line:
A drunken old Scot by the rigorous sentence
Last Line:
We shall go one and all where we find the best beer
Author:
William Taylor (Absolute)
DMI number:
27766

3. A fatal error tis in men of wealth

First Line:
A fatal error tis in men of wealth
Last Line:
To feed so high as will destroy their health
DMI number:
23381

4. A favourite cat that long in brewhouse dwelt

First Line:
A favourite cat that long in brewhouse dwelt
Last Line:
If I said so twas when I was in drink
DMI number:
24450

5. A brisk young vintner pert and gay

First Line:
A brisk young vintner pert and gay
Last Line:
Then prithee place your red nose there
DMI number:
40406

6. A brute thou art at best but mad with wine

First Line:
A brute thou art at best but mad with wine
Last Line:
Not makes thee bad but shows thee as thou art
DMI number:
35716

7. A bumper yes may for a while

First Line:
A bumper yes may for a while
Last Line:
To mingle with the low
DMI number:
35322

8. A cat a favourite one tis said

First Line:
A cat a favourite one tis said
Last Line:
Destruction on themselves and king
DMI number:
33279

9. A certain brewer whose liquor of life

First Line:
A certain brewer whose liquor of life
Last Line:
That those who touch cash should have clean washen hands
DMI number:
4412

10. A Cheshire man sailed into Spain

First Line:
A Cheshire man sailed into Spain
Last Line:
Our land bring twice a day
DMI number:
22380

11. A cook the lord knows where he lived

First Line:
A cook the lord knows where he lived
Last Line:
Because we want our dinners
DMI number:
39135

12. A country farmer saint or sinner

First Line:
A country farmer saint or sinner
Last Line:
The farmer's foibles handed down
DMI number:
22574

13. A country vicar in his homely house

First Line:
A country vicar in his homely house
Last Line:
Beef liberty and safety be my lot
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
30919

14. A cow and goat and simple ewe

First Line:
A cow and goat and simple ewe
Last Line:
Silent and sad renounce their dinners
DMI number:
19887

15. A hare you in season presented to us

First Line:
A hare you in season presented to us
Last Line:
For the sauce and the supper will suit to a hair
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
26932

16. A health to our sisters let us drink

First Line:
A health to our sisters let us drink
Last Line:
These keep us in transport all night
DMI number:
28688

17. A health to our sisters let's drink

First Line:
A health to our sisters let's drink
Last Line:
These keeps us in transports all night
DMI number:
31562

18. A jolly brave toper who could not forbear

First Line:
A jolly brave toper who could not forbear
Last Line:
No sooner are tapped but they give up the ghost
Author:
William Taylor (Absolute)
DMI number:
181

19. A justice in a country town

First Line:
A justice in a country town
Last Line:
Choused of his goose and reason too
DMI number:
10503

20. A pastry cook once moulded up a t-d

First Line:
A pastry cook once moulded up a t-d
Last Line:
Like weeds on dung hills stinking rank and sour
DMI number:
21830

21. A swain long tortured with disdain

First Line:
A swain long tortured with disdain
Last Line:
And make us tyrants by their fear
DMI number:
11840

22. A toast is like a sot or what is most

First Line:
A toast is like a sot or what is most
Last Line:
Both properly are said to be in drink
DMI number:
43802

23. A man had three apples gave one to his mother

First Line:
A man had three apples gave one to his mother
Last Line:
They each had an apple and one for himself
DMI number:
36873

24. A man of Wales betwixt St David's day and Easter

First Line:
A man of Wales betwixt St David's day and Easter
Last Line:
D'ye think hur know not chalk from cheese
DMI number:
12750

25. A man of wisdom may disguise

First Line:
A man of wisdom may disguise
Last Line:
Found out a cleanlier lover to lie by her
Author:
Richard Savage (Speculation)
DMI number:
3031

26. A man that is drunk is void of all care

First Line:
A man that is drunk is void of all care
Last Line:
My bottle should warm me and fill me with fire | Tol deral &c
Author:
Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:
286

27. A merchant there was an arch merry blade

First Line:
A merchant there was an arch merry blade
Last Line:
That the shoe maker never should out measure his last | Derry down &c
DMI number:
20753

28. A merry young blade of the papal belief

First Line:
A merry young blade of the papal belief
Last Line:
To be drunk is a punishment ample enough
DMI number:
11074

29. A modern cook bred up at France

First Line:
A modern cook bred up at France
Last Line:
And have her course again
DMI number:
21829

30. A plague on Egypt's arts I say

First Line:
A plague on Egypt's arts I say
Last Line:
A mummy ready made
Author:
David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:
31323

31. A pox on those fools who exclaim against wine

First Line:
A pox on those fools who exclaim against wine
Last Line:
So 'tis wine noble wine that's a friend to the crown
DMI number:
20745

32. A pox on those fools

First Line:
A pox on those fools
Last Line:
That's a friend to the crown
DMI number:
11234

33. A pot and a spit had a warm debate

First Line:
A pot and a spit had a warm debate
Last Line:
But you are so stiff you are easily broke
DMI number:
24974

34. A pot-bellied justice who thought a good feast

First Line:
A pot-bellied justice who thought a good feast
Last Line:
You will send me the rest of my fish
DMI number:
35674

35. A pox of this fooling and plotting of late

First Line:
A pox of this fooling and plotting of late
Last Line:
As free from all care and trouble as we
Author:
John Oldham (Absolute) & Thomas Brown (Speculation)
DMI number:
11229

36. A pox of this fooling and plotting of late

First Line:
A pox of this fooling and plotting of late
Last Line:
This is the profession that never will alter
Author:
John Oldham (Absolute) & Thomas Brown (Speculation)
DMI number:
13259

37. A pox of this fooling and plotting of late

First Line:
A pox of this fooling and plotting of late
Last Line:
To curse them for making my claret so dear
Author:
John Oldham (Absolute) & Thomas Brown (Speculation)
DMI number:
788

38. A pox on the fool

First Line:
A pox on the fool
Last Line:
We'll not leave a drop of't behind us
DMI number:
5252

39. A pox on the jailer and on his fat jole

First Line:
A pox on the jailer and on his fat jole
Last Line:
Grow red and contest with our chaplets of roses
Author:
John Hilton (Absolute)
DMI number:
43114

40. A pox on the jailer and on his fat jowl

First Line:
A pox on the jailer and on his fat jowl
Last Line:
And make our cold iron cry clink in the close
DMI number:
43864

41. A pox on the times let em go as they will

First Line:
A pox on the times let em go as they will
Last Line:
He fears neighte death nor undoing
DMI number:
5771

42. A pox on the times

First Line:
A pox on the times
Last Line:
He fears neither death nor undoing
DMI number:
2664

43. A pox on your sighing and sobbing for me

First Line:
A pox on your sighing and sobbing for me
Last Line:
And never get a surgeon to heal him
DMI number:
5811

44. A skilful cook this useful art will boast

First Line:
A skilful cook this useful art will boast
Last Line:
To have a double right to use her tongue
Author:
David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:
31727

45. A tripe well broiled cannot be ill

First Line:
A tripe well broiled cannot be ill
Last Line:
For a tripe well broiled cannot be ill
DMI number:
43939

46. A Welshman and an Englishman disputed

First Line:
A Welshman and an Englishman disputed
Last Line:
Ay quoth the other each man toasts his cheese
Author:
Henry Parrot (Confident)
DMI number:
17363

47. A Welshman coming late into an inn

First Line:
A Welshman coming late into an inn
Last Line:
In the morning took his heels and ran away
DMI number:
12413

48. A landlord at Bath put upon me a queer hum

First Line:
A landlord at Bath put upon me a queer hum
Last Line:
I asked him for punch and the dog gave me mere rum
DMI number:
26608

49. A landlord of Bath put upon me a queer hum

First Line:
A landlord of Bath put upon me a queer hum
Last Line:
I asked him for punch and the dog gave me mere rum
DMI number:
32356

50. Ah hah old man of mettle art thou there

First Line:
Ah hah old man of mettle art thou there
Last Line:
What can be if Sir John is not the sign
DMI number:
206

51. Ah Jack had thou been the other day

First Line:
Ah Jack had thou been the other day
Last Line:
Juvabit olim meminisse
DMI number:
43546

52. All hail to the days that merit more praise

First Line:
All hail to the days that merit more praise
Last Line:
And wholly concert with mirth and with sport | To drive the cold winter away | To drive &c
DMI number:
11233

53. Above these thousand years

First Line:
Above these thousand years
Last Line:
Is an eternal truth
Author:
Archibald Pitcairn (Speculation)
DMI number:
4663

54. Accept great sir on this triumphant day

First Line:
Accept great sir on this triumphant day
Last Line:
Than ever when full the reprobate before
DMI number:
2949

55. According to custom

First Line:
According to custom
Last Line:
Te capiet minus
Author:
Robert Samber (Confident)
DMI number:
1482

56. Accustom early in your youth

First Line:
Accustom early in your youth
Last Line:
A thousand perish by repletion
DMI number:
23377

57. Adieu dear sack claret and sherry

First Line:
Adieu dear sack claret and sherry
Last Line:
To her virtue and coyness pox on her
DMI number:
5317

58. Adieu to cursed whiskey for ever

First Line:
Adieu to cursed whiskey for ever
Last Line:
This whiskey begun to distil
DMI number:
30079

59. Alake for evermare and wae

First Line:
Alake for evermare and wae
Last Line:
For now he's dead
Author:
Francis Sempill (Speculation) & Robert Sempill (Speculation)
DMI number:
4610

60. Alas alas poor Bumbo Dick

First Line:
Alas alas poor Bumbo Dick
Last Line:
For he's chalked a long score against Dick
DMI number:
34906

61. Alas says one devouter than the rest

First Line:
Alas says one devouter than the rest
Last Line:
You see that almost every one keeps fast
DMI number:
5808

62. Alas with swift and silent pace

First Line:
Alas with swift and silent pace
Last Line:
And every bliss in wine shall meet
Author:
John Hawkesworth (Absolute) & Samuel Johnson (Speculation)
DMI number:
30679

63. After so many sad mishaps

First Line:
After so many sad mishaps
Last Line:
Full fair and soft he made her arse lie
Author:
Sir John Denham (Speculation)
DMI number:
7064

64. Against that wall where Bedlam's backside's shown

First Line:
Against that wall where Bedlam's backside's shown
Last Line:
Ham---d's the man whose character's the best
DMI number:
10345

65. A woman like the liquid tea

First Line:
A woman like the liquid tea
Last Line:
Boils inclination up
DMI number:
829

66. A wretch had committed all manner of evil

First Line:
A wretch had committed all manner of evil
Last Line:
But all yesterday I was drunk with October
DMI number:
7681

67. All in the late great winter snow

First Line:
All in the late great winter snow
Last Line:
A captive for his dinner
DMI number:
3078

68. Apollo silenced long ago

First Line:
Apollo silenced long ago
Last Line:
Should prove the curse of womankind
DMI number:
21971

69. An old house end an old house end

First Line:
An old house end an old house end
Last Line:
Then a turd in thy teeth and an old house end
DMI number:
44162

70. An old sage of late

First Line:
An old sage of late
Last Line:
Of life for it's fruit makes immortal
DMI number:
17670

71. Amoret and Strephon lay

First Line:
Amoret and Strephon lay
Last Line:
For a reward shall all be his
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5623

72. And hence good sober sirs let's take a jump

First Line:
And hence good sober sirs let's take a jump
Last Line:
Nay Orpheus and his harp had dangled after him
DMI number:
10354

73. All ye that love what's nice and rarish

First Line:
All ye that love what's nice and rarish
Last Line:
Or else my pies may prove a puff
DMI number:
26574

74. All you that delight for to spend some time

First Line:
All you that delight for to spend some time
Last Line:
And how Little John went a begging
DMI number:
37001

75. All you that ever tasted of Swatfal Hall beer

First Line:
All you that ever tasted of Swatfal Hall beer
Last Line:
And homage and rent to the lord of the manor | Derry down down &c
DMI number:
18820

76. Alwhyle ye drinke midst age and ache ybent

First Line:
Alwhyle ye drinke midst age and ache ybent
Last Line:
At lyfe's high founte an everlastynge cure
Author:
Dr Henry Harington (Confident)
DMI number:
33619

77. Amidst a radiant circle Strephon sate

First Line:
Amidst a radiant circle Strephon sate
Last Line:
Nor from that blessed Elysium ever stray
DMI number:
11279

78. As Jack ate rotten cheese and crammed away

First Line:
As Jack ate rotten cheese and crammed away
Last Line:
And with the self same weapon too
DMI number:
24810

79. As late of flowrets fresh and fair

First Line:
As late of flowrets fresh and fair
Last Line:
Strange titillations to my heart
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27355

80. As the other day Dick Harry Tom and I

First Line:
As the other day Dick Harry Tom and I
Last Line:
They act those crimes which they abhor in us
DMI number:
44320

81. As tippling John was jogging on

First Line:
As tippling John was jogging on
Last Line:
He's of our own religion
DMI number:
751

82. As we went wandering all the night

First Line:
As we went wandering all the night
Last Line:
And we liked our humour &c
DMI number:
44140

83. As on a purple bed supine

First Line:
As on a purple bed supine
Last Line:
Again you soft illusions rise
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27179

84. As once returning from the chase

First Line:
As once returning from the chase
Last Line:
And distant echoes catch the sound
DMI number:
31911

85. As over the mountains over the plains

First Line:
As over the mountains over the plains
Last Line:
The sweetest madness wine and love
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27186

86. As Hodge and Dick the hoof were beating

First Line:
As Hodge and Dick the hoof were beating
Last Line:
To eat oysters up and leave the shells to clients
DMI number:
5364

87. As I at Wheeler's lodge one night

First Line:
As I at Wheeler's lodge one night
Last Line:
As mighty lords and kings
DMI number:
401

88. Are the guests of this house still doomed to be cheated

First Line:
Are the guests of this house still doomed to be cheated
Last Line:
Instead of the dean make the deanery double
Author:
Patrick Delany (Confident)
DMI number:
11472

89. Are the guests of this house still doomed to be cheated

First Line:
Are the guests of this house still doomed to be cheated
Last Line:
Instead of the deans make the deanery double
DMI number:
18999

90. Are you grown so melancholy

First Line:
Are you grown so melancholy
Last Line:
Let the pox be your friend and the plague be your end | And this will cure you
DMI number:
43106

91. As breezes from the southern main

First Line:
As breezes from the southern main
Last Line:
And hie again for sea tomorrow
DMI number:
172

92. Artist of unrivalled skill

First Line:
Artist of unrivalled skill
Last Line:
Chloe smile upon the bowl
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31424

93. As Sir Toby reeled home with his skin full of wine

First Line:
As Sir Toby reeled home with his skin full of wine
Last Line:
And Sir Toby steered home by the help of his tail
DMI number:
16725

94. As soon as the chaos was made into form

First Line:
As soon as the chaos was made into form
Last Line:
Than when knaves would seem pious and fools would seem wise
Author:
Thomas D'Urfey (Absolute)
DMI number:
20738

95. As swift as time put round the glass

First Line:
As swift as time put round the glass
Last Line:
For to be merry's to be wise
DMI number:
20740

96. As swift as time put round the glass

First Line:
As swift as time put round the glass
Last Line:
For you to be merry's to be wise
DMI number:
2377

97. As in my shady grotto once I lay

First Line:
As in my shady grotto once I lay
Last Line:
That I mistook the fair one for the butt
DMI number:
17753

98. As in our first part we a tavern chose

First Line:
As in our first part we a tavern chose
Last Line:
Of stock in Africk's shares spouts out his jargon
DMI number:
10366

99. At length my friends the feast of life is over

First Line:
At length my friends the feast of life is over
Last Line:
Tis time to part but oh what is to pay
DMI number:
33993

100. At the sign of the horse where old Spintext of course

First Line:
At the sign of the horse where old Spintext of course
Last Line:
And away they both staggered together
DMI number:
31797