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Choyce Drollery

by J. Woodfall Ebsworth

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A Catch

24. Wilt thou be Fatt, Ile tell thee how,
  Thou shalt quickly do the Feat;
  And that so plump a thing as thou
  Was never yet made up of meat:
  Drink off thy Sack, twas onely that
  Made Bacchus and Jack Falstafe, Fatt.

Now, every Fat man I advise,
That scarce can peep out of his eyes,
Which being set, can hardly rise; [p. 73.]
Drink off his Sack, and freely quaff:
’Twil make him lean, but me [to] laugh
To tell him how —— ’tis on a staff.

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