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 Here's to you, as good as you are,
 And here's to me, as bad as I am;
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 Here's to you, as good as you are,
 And here's to me, as bad as I am;
  But as good as you are, and as bad as I am,
   I am as good as your are, as bad as I am. 
 Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and 
may you all live long and prosper.  
 Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and 
may you all live long and prosper. 
 I am from Massachusetts,
 The land of the sacred cod,
  There the Adamses snub the Abootts
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 I am from Massachusetts,
 The land of the sacred cod,
  There the Adamses snub the Abootts
   And the Cabots walk with God. 
 The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
 Doth ask a drink divine;
  But might I of read more 
 The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
 Doth ask a drink divine;
  But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
   I would not change for thine. 
 I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to 
my lips more for thy sake read more 
 I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to 
my lips more for thy sake than for drinking. 
 There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends 
forsake us.  
 There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends 
forsake us. 
May you live all the days of your life.
May you live all the days of your life.
 Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame!
 O! merry be their Dole;
  Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,
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 Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame!
 O! merry be their Dole;
  Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,
   And fill the tawny bowl. 
 I fill this cup to one made up
 Of loveliness alone,
  A woman, of her gentle sex
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 I fill this cup to one made up
 Of loveliness alone,
  A woman, of her gentle sex
   The seeming paragon;
    To whom the better elements
     And kindly stars have given
      A form so fair that, like the air,
       'Tis less of earth than heaven.