I Cannot Eat Meat

Here's a drinking song from Popular Music of the Olden Time (William Chapell, 1859) and sequenced by myself.

I cannot eat but little meat My stomach is not good But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare take ye no care For I am never cold I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold: But belly, God send thee good ale enough Whether it be new or old. I love no roast, but a nut-brown toast And a crab laid in the fire, A little bread shall do me stead, Much bread I never desire.

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