A TAVERN" SCENE. 



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in fac-simile (on a reduced scale), it is an excel- 

 lent tavern scene. The table is supplied with a 

 huge " pottle-pot " of drink, and pipes for smoking. 



The swaggering gallant who is indulging in his pipe, 

 is a sketch from nature, worthy of Dekker. The 

 trio might be fitly employed in chanting the following 

 praises of Ale and Tobacco : * — 



Tobacco fumes away all nastie rheumes, 



But health away it never lightly frets, 



And nappy Ale makes mirth (as Aprill raine doth Earth) 



Spring like the pleasant spring, where're it soaking wets. 



CHORUS. 



But in that spring of mirth, 



Such madnes nye doth growe, 

 As fills a foole by birth 



With crotchets, with Ale and TobaccoV 



* From Ravenscroft's Briefe Discourse of Music, to which is prefixed 

 songs " Concerning the pleasure of five usuall recreations, Hunting, 

 Hawking, Dauncing, Drinking, and Enamouring." 1614. 



