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Drinking Song

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The oldest in the language is in the second act of Gammer Gurton’s Needle, by John Still, called The Jolly Bishop. It begins:

“I cannot eat but little meat.

My stomach is not good.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.