Living
The Toast: A Catch
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Living
Give the Toast, my good fellow, be jovial and gay,
And let the brisk moments pass jocund away!
HERE'S THE KING—take your bumpers, my brave British souls,
Who guards your fair freedom should crown your full bowls.
LET HIM LIVE—long and happy, see Lewis brought down,
And taste all the comforts, no cares, of a crown.
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Codex Note
Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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