 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...their time, and was far more popular than the works of these two good men. The ballad thus begins : 'I cannot eat, but little meat, My stomach is not...think, that I can drink, With him that wears a hood." This drinking song opens the second act of 'Gammer Gurton's Needle,' said to have been the first comedy... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...Little is known of the author, except that he was the writer of a play called "Gammer Gunter's Needle."] I CANNOT eat but little meat, My stomach is not good...hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold; I stuff my skin so full within Back and side go bare, go bare ; Both foot and hand go cold... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...is known of the author, except that he was the writer of a. play called "Gammer Gunter's Needle."] I CANNOT eat but little meat, My stomach is not good...hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold ; I stuff" my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. O> I: II •I 59 . •M!si,' *... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...is known of the author, except that he was the writer of a play called "Gammer Gunter's Needle."] . I CANNOT eat but little meat, My stomach is not good...hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold ; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and side go bare, go bare ;... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1863 - 302 pages
...one, by Mr. M'alker, before the year 1600." By John Still, Rishopof Bath and Wells, who died in 1607. CANNOT eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure, I think that I can drink With any that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a-cold ; I stuff my skin so... | |
 | English ballads - 1864 - 306 pages
...one, by Mr. Walker, before the year 1600." By John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, -who died in 1607. CANNOT eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure, I think that I can drink With any that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a-cold ; I stuff my skin so... | |
 | English ballads - 1864 - 296 pages
...1607. CANNOT eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure, I think that I can drink With any that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a-cold ; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale dnd old. Back and side go bare,... | |
 | John Tomlinson - Yorkshire (England) - 1865 - 246 pages
...Then one in the company favours us with a DRINKING SONG. AlK—Yorkshire Ale is my delight. I can not eat, but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But...wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a cold, I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and side go bare,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...all.f Chap. xlvi. Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. Chap. Ivii. BISHOP STILL, (JOHN.) 1543-1607. I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think that I can drink With any that wears a hood. Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act ii. Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and... | |
 | Barry Gray, John Savage - Ale - 1866 - 136 pages
...Bishop of Bath and Wells), we have the following excellent convivial song, extolling jolly good ale: "I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good;...hood; Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. , ' Back and side go bare, go bare;... | |
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I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood... 
