Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A CATCH ON TOBACCO, by ANONYMOUS


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A CATCH ON TOBACCO, by                    
First Line: "good, good indeed"
Last Line: A pipe of spanish
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes


Good, good indeed;
The herb's good weed;
Fill thy pipe, Will.
And I prithee, Sam, fill,
And yet sing still,
And yet sing still,
What say the learn'd?
What say the learn'd?
Vita fumus, vita fumus!

'Tis what you and I,
And he and I,
You, and he, and I,
And all of us sumus.

But then to the learned say we again,
If life's a smoke, as they maintain;
If life's a vapour without doubt,
When a man does die,
He should not cry,
That his glass is run, but his pipe is out.
But whether we smoke or whether we sing,
Let us be loyal and remember the King,
Let him live, and let his foes vanish thus, thus, thus,
Like, like a pipe, like a pipe of Spanish, thus, thus, thus,
A pipe of Spanish!





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