[Page 293]

HULL ALE.

By the Same.
1 LONG time did a silly old proverb prevail,
2 That meat, drink, and cloth were all found in good ale;
3 'Till a lover of truth went on purpose to Hull,
4 And to try the experiment drank his skin full.
5 He began to see visions, his head it turn'd round,
6 'Till off from his keffal he fell on the ground:
7 There in trances profound our philosopher mellow
8 Lay all night in the snow consulting his pillow.
[Page 294]
9 Oracular vapours give prophecy birth,
10 As Plutarch reports, springing out of the earth.
11 Whether this was the cause, or however inspir'd,
12 Our sage gave a sentence will be ever admir'd.
13 'Twas this — I pronounce that good ale is good meat,
14 For I find, I have no inclination to eat:
15 That good ale is good cloth, you may honestly boast,
16 For i' faith! I'm as blithe and as warm as a toast:
17 But to call it good drink — is a lye, I'll be sworn,
18 For I ne'er was so dry since the hour I was born.
19 The cloth, cries a punster who chanc'd to come by,
20 Must be a good drap, if it kept you so dry.

Text

  • TEI/XML [chunk] (XML - 57K / ZIP - 6.4K) / ECPA schema (RNC - 357K / ZIP - 73K)
  • Plain text [excluding paratexts] (TXT - 1.0K / ZIP - 767 )

Facsimile (Source Edition)

(Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

Images

PDF

All Images (PDF - 1.5M)

About this text

Title (in Source Edition): HULL ALE.
Author: William Taylor
Themes: food; drink
Genres: comic verse
References: DMI 27764

Text view / Document view

Source edition

Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. V. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], pp. 293-294. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.005) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

Editorial principles

The text has been typographically modernized, but without any silent modernization of spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. The source of the text is given and all editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. Based on the electronic text originally produced by the TCP project, this ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.