John Dryden (1631-1700)
Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
COMUS
1Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd;
2Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap'd:
3 Come, my boys, come;
4 Come, my boys, come;
5And merrily roar out Harvest Home.
CHORUS
6Come, my boys, come;
7Come, my boys, come;
8And merrily roar out Harvest Home.
MAN
9 We ha' cheated the parson, we'll cheat him agen,
10For why should a blockhead ha' one in ten?
11 One in ten,
12 One in ten,
13For why should a blockhead ha' one in ten?
14 For prating so long like a book-learn'd sot,
15Till pudding and dumplin burn to pot,
16 Burn to pot,
17 Burn to pot,
18Till pudding and dumplin burn to pot.
CHORUS
19Burn to pot,
20Burn to pot,
21Till pudding and dumplin burn to pot.
22 We'll toss off our ale till we canno' stand,
23And Hoigh for the honour of Old England:
24 Old England,
25 Old England,
26And Hoigh for the honour of Old England.
CHORUS
27Old England,
28Old England,
29And Hoigh for the honour of Old England.
Notes
1] The harvest song from King Arthur, Act IV, scene i.
8] one in ten: the reference is to tithes, a tax of ten per cent on the products of the land for the support of the established church.
Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.
Original text: John Dryden, King Arthur; or, The British Worthy (London: J. Tonson, 1691). D-10 2918 Fisher Rare Book Library
First publication date:
1691
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 2RP 1.482.
Recent editing: 4:2002/3/21
Form note: irregularly rhyming
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