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Celebrating John Fletcher born Rye 1579
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Renaissance Plays, Music & Comedy
Drink today and drown all sorrow,
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit,
There is no cure 'gainst age but it;
It helps the headache, cough and tisic,
And is for all diseases physic
Then let us swill boys, for our health;
Who drinks well, love the commonwealth
And he that will to bed go sober
Falls with the leaf still in October.
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit,
There is no cure 'gainst age but it;
It helps the headache, cough and tisic,
And is for all diseases physic
Then let us swill boys, for our health;
Who drinks well, love the commonwealth
And he that will to bed go sober
Falls with the leaf still in October.
John Fletcher 1579-1625
FRIENDS OF FLETCHER IN RYE