How, butler, how! @3Bevis a tout!@1 O fill the boll, jentill butler, And let the cup rout! Jentill butler, bellamy, Fill the boll by the eye, That we may drink by and by, With "How, butler, how!" @3Bevis a tout!@1 Fill the boll, butler, And let the cup rout! Here is metë for us all, Both for grete and for small, I trow we must the butler call, With "How, butler, how!" I am so dry I cannot speke; I am nigh chokëd with my mete; I trow the butler be aslepe. With "How, butler, how!" Butler, butler, fill the boll, Or elles I beshrewe thy noll. I trow we must the bell toll, With, "How, butler, how!" If the butler's name be Water, I would he were a galow claper; But if he bring us drink, the rather With "How, butler, how!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME' by ROBERT BROWNING JOHANNES AGRICOLA IN MEDITATION by ROBERT BROWNING THE POET AND HIS SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR WILD SWANS by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY HERE LIES A LADY by JOHN CROWE RANSOM THE CONFESSION by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |