Sunday, January 23, 2022
Why Should Not We All Be Merry?
Anonymous, from Catch that Catch Can (1658), in The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934), p. 810 (number 538, vi):
David Teniers the Younger, Tavern Scene (1658), in the
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
(accession number 1975.77.1)
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Why should not we all be merry,
Our Ale is as brown as a Berry?
What then should be the thing,
Should hinder us to sing
Hey down, derry down derry,
Hey down a down hey down derry.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
(accession number 1975.77.1)
