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Article THE SONGS OF MASONRY. ← Page 3 of 13 →
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The Songs Of Masonry.
" With an old lady , whose anger good words assuages , Who ev ' ry quarter pays her old servants their wages , Who never knew what belongs to coachmen , footmen , and pages , But kept twenty or thirty old fellows with blue clothes and badges , Like an old courtier , & c . " With a study fill'd full of learned books , With old
an reverend parson—you may judge him by his looks , With an old buttery hatch , worn quite off the old hooks , And an old kitchen , which maintains half a dozen old cooks , Like an old courtier , & c . " With an old hall hung round about with guns , pikes and bows ; With old swords and buckleis , which have borne many shrewd blows ; And an old frysadoe coat , to cover his worship ' s trunk-hose , And a cup of old sherry to comfort his copper nose , Like an old courtier , & c .
" With an old fashion , when Christinas is come , To call in his neighbours with bagpipe and drum ; Ancl good cheer enough to furnish every old room ; And old liquor , able to make a cat speak , and a wise man dumb , Like an old courtier , & c . " With an old huntsmana falconerancl kennel of hounds
, , a , Which never hunted nor hawked , but in his own grounds ; Who , like an old wise man , kept himself within his own bounds ; And , when he died , gave every child a thousand old pounds , Like an old courtier , & c . " For the reasons already assigned , the most popular songs of that age very naturallassumed a bacchanalian characterand if such habits
y ; were indulged and considered necessary for admission into decent society by every other description of men , it was scarcely possible for Masons to escape the infection . It is therefore undeniable that they are truly described by the epithet of "jolly fellows . " Witness the subjoined song .
" All ye who to Masonry are elevated , Who freely and jovially laugh , quaff , and sing ; All ye who as foes to dull paleness are rated , Attend , while some jn-oofs I endeavour to bring , That Zeno , Pythag ' ras , Eudoxus , Protag ' ras , Hipparchus , Diag ' ras , shortall who
In , are , For clearness or mystery , Recorded in history , With ancient Freemasonry none could compare . " Sophistical sceptics , and cynics dogmatic , Highflying , Platonical metaphysicians , Rhetorical ranters , declaimcr . ' Socratic , And peripatetical , frothy logicians ,
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The Songs Of Masonry.
" With an old lady , whose anger good words assuages , Who ev ' ry quarter pays her old servants their wages , Who never knew what belongs to coachmen , footmen , and pages , But kept twenty or thirty old fellows with blue clothes and badges , Like an old courtier , & c . " With a study fill'd full of learned books , With old
an reverend parson—you may judge him by his looks , With an old buttery hatch , worn quite off the old hooks , And an old kitchen , which maintains half a dozen old cooks , Like an old courtier , & c . " With an old hall hung round about with guns , pikes and bows ; With old swords and buckleis , which have borne many shrewd blows ; And an old frysadoe coat , to cover his worship ' s trunk-hose , And a cup of old sherry to comfort his copper nose , Like an old courtier , & c .
" With an old fashion , when Christinas is come , To call in his neighbours with bagpipe and drum ; Ancl good cheer enough to furnish every old room ; And old liquor , able to make a cat speak , and a wise man dumb , Like an old courtier , & c . " With an old huntsmana falconerancl kennel of hounds
, , a , Which never hunted nor hawked , but in his own grounds ; Who , like an old wise man , kept himself within his own bounds ; And , when he died , gave every child a thousand old pounds , Like an old courtier , & c . " For the reasons already assigned , the most popular songs of that age very naturallassumed a bacchanalian characterand if such habits
y ; were indulged and considered necessary for admission into decent society by every other description of men , it was scarcely possible for Masons to escape the infection . It is therefore undeniable that they are truly described by the epithet of "jolly fellows . " Witness the subjoined song .
" All ye who to Masonry are elevated , Who freely and jovially laugh , quaff , and sing ; All ye who as foes to dull paleness are rated , Attend , while some jn-oofs I endeavour to bring , That Zeno , Pythag ' ras , Eudoxus , Protag ' ras , Hipparchus , Diag ' ras , shortall who
In , are , For clearness or mystery , Recorded in history , With ancient Freemasonry none could compare . " Sophistical sceptics , and cynics dogmatic , Highflying , Platonical metaphysicians , Rhetorical ranters , declaimcr . ' Socratic , And peripatetical , frothy logicians ,