A Catch

Let's leave off our labour, and now let's go play,
For this is out time to be jolly;
Our plagues and our plaguers are both fled away,
To nourish our griefs is but folly
He that won't drink and sing,
Is a Traytor to's King,
And so's he that does not look twenty years younger;
We'l look blith and trim,
With rejoycing at him
That is the restorer, and will be the Prolonger,
Of all our felicity and health,
The joy of our hearts, and increase of our wealth,
'Tis he brings our trading, our trading brings riches,
Our riches brings honors, at which every mind itches,
And our riches bring sack, and our sack brings us joy,
And our joy makes us leap, and sing Vive le Roy .
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