Fill the Bowl, Butler!

How! butler, how!
Bevis à tout!
Fill the boll, gentill butler,
And let the cup rought!

Gentill butler, bell ami,
Fill the boll by the eye,
That we may drink by and by.
With, how! butler, how! Bevis à tout!
Fill the boll, butler, and let the cup rought.

Here is mete for us all,
Both for gret and for small,
I trow we must the butler call.
With, how! butler, how! Bevis à tout!
Fill the boll, butler, and let the cup rought.

I am so dry I cannot spek,
I am nigh choked with my mete!
I trow the butler be aslepe!
With, how! butler, how! Bevis à tout!
Fill the boll, butler, and let the cup rought.

Butler! butler! fill the boll,
Or elles I beshrewe thy noll!
I trow we must the bell toll.
With, how! butler, how! Bevis à tout!
Fill the boll, butler, and let the cup rought.

If the butler's name be Water
I wold he were a galow-claper,
But if he bring us drink the rather.
With, how! butler, how! Bevis à tout!
Fill the boll, butler, and let the cup rought.
Translation: 
Language: 
Rate this poem: 

Reviews

No reviews yet.