Brewer's: Drinking Song

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.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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