Living
Now God be with old Simeon
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Living
Now God be with old Simeon,
For he made cans for many-a-one,
And a good old man was he;
And Jinkin was his journeyman,
And he could tipple of every can,
And thus he said to me:
"To whom drink you?"
"Sir knave, to you."
Then hey-ho, jolly Jinkin!
I spie a knave in drinking.
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Codex Note
From Pammelia, 1609.
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