...printed the song, is certainly of an earlier date than the oldest known edition of the play. (1575.)* "I CANNOT eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure, I think that I can drink, With any that wears a hood. Tho' I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a cold, I stuff my skin so full...

...comedy Gammer Gurton's Needle, which contained the bacchanalian chant, I cannot eat but little meat, lly stomach is not good ; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. That fine old song of The Ex-ale-tation of Ale, draws one of the earliest distinctions between Ijcer...

...When the beards waveth alle. ADAM DAvIE, 1312. Life of Alexander. H BISHOP STILL (JOHN). 1543-1607, T CANNOT eat but little meat, -•- My stomach is not...think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Gaininer Gurtoris Ncedlt. Act ii. Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold ; But,...

...containing a drinking-song of perennial reputation. The bishop, it would seem, was dyspeptic — ' I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With any that wears a hood. Tho' I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold ; I stuff my skin so full...

...Oysters." Nearly an hour the• contest raged. Biggins yielded first. But though vanquished, he sang: " I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But I do think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Back and side go bare, go bare, ." " We'll...

...but lytle mcate, My stomacke is not good, But sure I thinke that I can drinke With him that weares a hood. Though I go bare take ye no care, I nothing am a colde, I stuff my skyn so full within, Of joly good ale and olde. Chorus. Backe and syde go bare, go...

...verse: "/ cannot eate but lytle meate, My stomacke is not good, But sure I thinke that I can drinke With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a colde, I stuff my skyn so full within. Of July good ale and oide. Chorus Backe and syde go bare, go...