THE CHARMS of MELODY, SONG 55

Fill your glasses: banish grief: Laugh, and worldly care despise. Sorrow ne'er can bring relief: Joy from drinking will arise. Why should we with wrinkled care, Change what nature made so fair? Drink, and set your hearts at rest: Of a bad bargain make the best.

Some pursue the winged wealth: Some to honour do aspire. Give me freedom, give me health— There's the sum of my desire. What the world can more present, Will not add to my content. Drink, and set your hearts at rest: Peace of mind is always best.

Busy brains, we know, alas! With imaginations run, Like the sand in th' hour-glass, Turn'd, and turn'd, and still runs on; Never knowing where to stay, But uneasy ev'ry way. Drink, and set your hearts at rest: Peace of mind is always best.

Mirth, when mingled with our wine, Makes the heart alert and free: Let it rain, or snow, or shine, Still the same thing 'tis to me. There's no fence against our fate: Changes daily on us wait. Drink, and set your hearts at rest: Of a bad bargain make the best.