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Thread #20212 Message #2587053
Posted By: Jim Dixon
12-Mar-09 - 07:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hey! Ho! Anybody Home?
From The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, edited by Raymond Macdonald Alden (Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1910). The play was first performed 1607, and published in 1613:
Enter another Boy.
2. Boy. Sir, I can get no bread for supper.
Mer. Hang bread and supper! let's preserve our mirth, and we shall never feele hunger, I'le warrant you. Let's have a catch, boy; follow me, come. Sing this Catch.Ho, ho, no body at home!
Meate, nor drinke, nor money ha wee none,
Fill the pot, Eedy,
Never more need I.
Mer. So, boies; enough. Follow mee. Let's change our place and we shall laugh afresh. Exeunt.