Sunday, January 30, 2022
Cast Away Care
Anonymous, from Academy of Compliments (1671), in The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934), p. 898 (number 584; line numbers added):
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Hang sorrow, cast away care,My notes:
Come let us drink up our Sack;
They say it is good,
To cherish the blood,
And eke to strengthen the Back; 5
'Tis wine that makes the thoughts aspire,
And fills the body with heat,
Besides 'tis good,
If well understood,
To fit a man for the Feat: 10
Then call,
And drink up all,
The Drawer is ready to fill,
A pox of care,
What need we to spare, 15
My Father hath made his Will.
10 the Feat = sexual intercourse
15 Drawer = servant who pours the wine
