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"HOW, BUTLER, HOW!" by ANONYMOUS

Last Line: "WITH ""HOW, BUTLER, HOW!"
How, butler, how!
@3Bevis a tout!@1
O fill the boll, jentill butler,
And let the cup rout!

Jentill butler, bellamy,
Fill the boll by the eye,
That we may drink by and by,
With "How, butler, how!"
@3Bevis a tout!@1
Fill the boll, butler,
And let the cup rout!

Here is metë for us all,
Both for grete and for small,
I trow we must the butler call,
With "How, butler, how!"

I am so dry I cannot speke;
I am nigh chokëd with my mete;
I trow the butler be aslepe.
With "How, butler, how!"

Butler, butler, fill the boll,
Or elles I beshrewe thy noll.
I trow we must the bell toll,
With, "How, butler, how!"

If the butler's name be Water,
I would he were a galow claper;
But if he bring us drink, the rather
With "How, butler, how!"



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