Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Various
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Which nobody, etc.
A brewer may be all in all, And raise his powers, both great and small, That he may be a lord general; Which nobody, etc. A brewer may be like a fox in a cub, And teach a lecture out of a tub, And give the wicked world a rub; Which nobody, etc. A brewer, by's excise and rate, Will promise his army he knows what, And set upon the college-gate; Which nobody, etc. Methinks I hear one say to me, Pray why may not a brewer be Lord Chancellor o' the University? Which nobody, etc. A brewer may be as bold as Hector, When as he had drank his cup o' Nectar, And a brewer may be a Lord Protector; Which nobody, etc. Now here remains the strangest thing, How this brewer about his liquor did bring To be an emperor or a king; |
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