Richard Lovelace

The Vintage to the Dungeon

                               A Song

 
                                    I.
 
SING out pent Soules, sing cheerefully!
Care Shackles you in Liberty,
Mirth frees you in Captivity:
   Would you double fetters adde?
   Else why so sadde?
 
                                Chorus
Besides your pinion’d armes you’l finde
Griefe too can manakell the minde.
 
                                    II.
 
Live then Pris’ners uncontrol’d ;
Drink oth’ strong, the Rich, the Old,
Till Wine too hath your Wits in hold ;
   Then if still your Jollitie,
   And Throats are free ;
 
                                Chorus
Tryumph in your Bonds and Paines,
And daunce to th’ Musick of your Chaines.
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