The good Fellowes best Beloved:
Now if you will know what that should bee,
Ile tell you 'tis called good
Ipse hee:
'Tis that which some people do love in some measure,
some for their profit and some for their pleasure.
To the tune of
Blew Capp.
AMong the nine Muses if any there be
that unto good fellowship friendly adhere,
Let them give asistance this time unto me,
for I in this ditty intend to preferre
A thing that's beloved
of rich and of poore,
It is well approoved,
there's reason therefore,
My due approbation
shall evermore be
In the commendation
of good ipse hee.
All sorts and conditions the high and the lowe,
although not alike yet all in some measure,
Vnto this my theame their affection will showe,
according as they have time, stomack, or treasure:
There's few live so purely,
but they now and then
Will sip it demurely
both women and men,
Both marryd and simple
doe joyntly agrée,
To fuddle their noses
with good ipse he.
Both Lawyers & clients that come to the terme,
how e're the case goes of one thing I am sure,
Before any businesse can be setl'd firme,
good liquor & money the meanes must procure,
A Taverne barre often,
makes peace ere they part,
Canary can soften
a plaintiffes hard heart,
Their glasses they sup off,
and make merry glée,
Such power hath a cup of
good good ipse he.
The Taylor coms rubbing his hāds in the morn,
and calls for a cup of the But next the wall,
Be it of the Grape or the Barley Corne,
hée'le drinke out his breakfast his dinner & all,
Hée sayes call and spare not,
Ile goe thorough stitch,
Hang pinshing I care not
for being too rich:
Iohn Black's a good fellow,
and he alowes me
To make my selfe mellow
with good ipse hee.
The merry Shoo-maker when 'tis a hard frost,
sayes he cannot work for his waxe it is frozen,
Fayth what shall we doe, let us goe to our Host
and make our selves merry with each a halfe dozen,
With this resolution,
they purpose to thrive,
But ere the conclusion,
that number proves five,
They sing merry catches,
few trades men that be,
Are Shoo-makers matches
at good ipse hee.
The second part,
To the same tune.
THe Mason and bricklayers are somer birds,
the Winter to them is a time of vacation:
Then they & their laborours live on their words,
unlesse (like the Ant) they have made preparation,
And yet though they have not,
they ne'rethelesse thinke,
Tush what if we save not,
must we have no drinke,
Wéele pawne tray and shovle,
and more if néede be,
Our noses to fuddle
with good ipse hee.
Grim
Vulcā the black-smith is chief of al trades
then think you that he'l be in drinking inferiour
No truely when hée's with his merry comrades,
héele laugh and sing ditties you never heard merrier,
He cryes out hée's hot,
and still this is his note
Come gi's t'other pot:
héer's a sparke in my throate,
Hee calls and he payes,
there is no man more frée,
He seldome long stayes
from good ipse hee.
The Tanner when he comes to Leaden-hall,
after a hard journey wil make himselfe merry,
He will have good liquor and welcome with all,
the Bul for good béere and the naggs-head for shery,
No bargaine shall stand,
but what liquor doth seale,
Quite throughout the Land,
thus most tradesmen doe deale,
In Taverne or Alehouse
most matches made be,
The first word's where shall us
finde good ipse hee.
The
London shopkéepers that cry what doe lack
when they have sold wares & money have taken,
They'l give their chapman a pint o'th best sacke,
the price of it out of their money abating,
The proverb observing
they that money take
Must pay all the charges,
this bargaine they make,
Thus Liquor makes all men,
most friendly agrée,
Both lowe men and tall men,
love good ipse hee.
The honest plain Husbādman when that he goes
to fayre or to market with corne or with cattle:
When he hath dispatcht he remembers his nose,
how that must be arm'd as it were to a battle,
Then like to a gallant
to drinking he falls,
Yet though hée's pot valiant,
he payes what he calls:
He scornes reputation
in that base degrée,
His chiefe recreation
is good ipse hee.
The generous Servingmen méeting each other
as wel as their masters somtimes wil be merry,
He that's a good fellow is lov'd like a brother,
with making him welcom they nere are weary
Hee that is a clowne,
as a clowne he may goe
Quite thoroughout the towne,
such a fellow theyle know:
But those that are right
will in union agrée,
By morn or by night
at good ipse hee.
In briefe thus it is which both women and men,
so déerely affect that before they will lack it:
Theyle pawne all they have nay & so now & then,
gown, kirtle, or wastcoate, cloake breeches and jacket,
Although they want victuall
if they can get chinke,
Bée't never so little,
'tis most on't for drinke:
The rich and the begger,
the bond and the frée
Will oftentimes swagger
at good ipse hee.
M. P.
FINIS.
London Printed for Iohn Wright iunior, dvvelling on Snow hill, at the Signe of the Sunne.