Popular Music Of The Olden Time Vol 2

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	644	ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.

	therefore commencing, "Here's a health to the King" &c. A third version gives " Mr. Robert Dyer's additional stanzas, as sung by him at Lincoln's Inn Theatre." The author of the words, whoever he may have been, had in mind the drinking-song in Fletcher's Bloody Brothers, from which he borrowed two lines,— " Best, while you have it, use your breath, There is no drinking after death." The tune of Down among the dead men was a great favorite with the late Samuel Wesley, who used constantly to fugue upon it.