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TIME'S ALTERATIONS.
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Black Jacks to every man
Were filled with wine and beer,
No pewter pot, nor can,
In those days did appear:
Good cheer in a nobleman's house
Was counted a seemly show;
We wanted no brawn nor souse
When this old cap was new.
Were filled with wine and beer,
No pewter pot, nor can,
In those days did appear:
Good cheer in a nobleman's house
Was counted a seemly show;
We wanted no brawn nor souse
When this old cap was new.
We took not such delight
In cups of silver fine;
None under degree of a knight
In plate drank beer or wine:
Now each mechanical man
Hath a cupboard of plate for a show,
Which was a rare thing then
When this old cap was new.
In cups of silver fine;
None under degree of a knight
In plate drank beer or wine:
Now each mechanical man
Hath a cupboard of plate for a show,
Which was a rare thing then
When this old cap was new.
Then bribery was unborn,
No simony men did use,
Christians did usury scorn,
Devised among the Jews:
The lawyers to be fee'd
At that time hardly knew;
For man with man agreed
When this old cap was new.
No simony men did use,
Christians did usury scorn,
Devised among the Jews:
The lawyers to be fee'd
At that time hardly knew;
For man with man agreed
When this old cap was new.
No captain then caroused,
Nor spent poor soldier's pay;
They were not so abused
As they are at this day;
Of seven days they make eight,
To keep them from their due;
Poor soldiers had their right
When this old cap was new.
Nor spent poor soldier's pay;
They were not so abused
As they are at this day;
Of seven days they make eight,
To keep them from their due;
Poor soldiers had their right
When this old cap was new.
Which made them forward still
To go, although not prest;
And going with goodwill,
Their fortunes were the best;
Our English then in fight
Did foreign foes subdue,
And forced them all to flight
When this old cap was new.
To go, although not prest;
And going with goodwill,
Their fortunes were the best;
Our English then in fight
Did foreign foes subdue,
And forced them all to flight
When this old cap was new.
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