| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song: ‘Some thirty or forty or fifty at least’ | | By Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723) |
| | | SOME thirty or forty or fifty at least, | |
| Or more, I have loved in vain, in vaín, | |
| But if you’ll vouchsafe to receive a poor guest, | |
| For once I will venture again, again. | |
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| How long I shall be in this mind, this mind, | 5 |
| Is totally in your own power; | |
| All my days I can pass with the kind, the kind, | |
| But I’ll part with the proud in an hour. | |
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| Then if you’ll be good-natured and civil, and civil, | |
| You’ll find I can be so too, so too; | 10 |
| But if not you may go, you may go to the devil, | |
| Or the devil may come to you, to you. | | | | |
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