If I live to be old for I find I grow down
- DMI number:
- 20733
- First Line:
- If I live to be old for I find I grow down
- Last Line:
- Shall be read on my tomb what is it to me | May I govern &c
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song with refrain and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Age, Death, Food and drink, and The happy man / contentment
- First Line:
- If I live to grow old as I find I go down
- Last Line:
- He is gone and han't left behind him his fellow | For he governed his passion &c
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- If I live to grow old as I find I go down
- Last Line:
- Without gout or stone by a gentle decay
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The toper's delight or a pipe of the best [ESTC T124884]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35-39
- Poem Title:
- Song XI. If I live to be old.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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