Couple of typos or something in Dick's text above: going by the 3-stanza version in Chappell's "Popular Music of the Olden Time" [consists of Venus, bishops, doctors], I suggest that the last lines should be "what cures all disease is / A comforting glass..." In st. 3, rhyme demands "his liquor surpasses" [rhyme for "Parnassus"]. Besides this, in st. 2 Chappell has "when once you have tasted, you'll own it is true" ... "And none understand what is good like to you." Whether that is better or not is up for grabs. I suppose American printings will differ from British. -- I well remember the merry singing of this at Colonial Williamsburg a few years ago. A great song! Cheers Murray