[Sca-cooks] Brown Ale -
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Sun Jun 7 07:33:54 PDT 2009
The nut-brown ale, the nut-brown ale,
Puts down all drink when it is stale!
The toast, the nutmeg, and the ginger
Will make a sighing man a singer.
Ale gives a buffet in the head,
But ginger under-props the brain;
When ale would strike a strong man dead
Then nutmeg tempers it again.
The nut-brown ale, the nut-brown ale,
Puts down all drink when it is stale!
John Marston (1575?-1634)
My read on the line "puts down all drink when it is stale" means, even
when it's gone bad, it's still better than anything else around.
Selene
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