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When I have the time I will have to complete text of The Masque here. Otherwise here is the toasts from this

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TOASTS, SENTIMENTS, HOB NOBS, &c.

Many of them new,
compiled and written for this work.

Constancy in love, and sincerity in friendship.

Health in freedom and content in bondage.

Success to the lover, and joy to the beloved.

May the single be marry'd, and the marry'd be happy.

Success to the falling woman, and the standing man.

The magic ring.

May our joy and vigour be united, and both be extensive.

May our joys with the fair give pleasure to the heart.

May our happiness be sincere, and our joys be lasting.

The pleasure of imagination realiz'd.

Hans Carvell's ring. [1]

The mother of all souls. [2]

May our pleasures be boundless, while we have time to enjoy them.

Days of ease, and nights of pleasure.

The female reaper, that never leaves a handful standing.

The venison fest, four haunches well spitte.

Honour and influence to the public-spirited patrons of trade.

May power ever continue in the friends of England.

The beggar's blessing. [3]

The love of liberty, and liberty in love.

The fairest in Middlesex, and the middle of the fair sex.

The thatch'd house under the hill. [4]

Life, love and liberty.

May we never want vigour when we come to a shift. [5]

Money to him that has spirit to use it, and life to him that has courage to lose it.

Great men honest, and honest men great.

Every honest man his right, and every rogue a halter.

Extreme unction in dying virginity.

Health of body, peace of mind, a clean shirt, and a guinea.

All our wants and wishes.

Kiss whom we please, please whom we kiss.

Equal joy in a critical minute.

Success to the lover, honour to the brave,
Health to the sick, and freedom to the slave.

Perpetual disappointment to the enemies of England.

May the true lovers of liberty in England be for ever united in affection, as they are in interest.

May he who has neither wife, mistress, or estate in England, nver have any share in the government of it.

Disappointment to those who barter the cause of their country for ostentation or sordid gain.

May we always be attached to those who preserve in generous endeavours to promote the welfare of their country.

The steady friends of Britain.

Disappointment to those who form expectation of places and pensions on the ruin of their country.

May all those who for sordid interest endeavour to betray their country, meet the fate of Judas.

May the enemies of Britain never eat the bread thereof, or, if they do, be choaked with the first bit.

A speedy export to all the enemies of England without a draw back.

May we never want spirit and resolution to defend our independency against the attacks of ambition.

May we always detest the malace of those, who attempt to disunite the interest of our king and country, which are ever inseparable.

The honest patriot and unbiass'd Briton.

May we always be able to distinguish those, who, by a steady and uniform adherence to their duty, distinguis hemselves.

May our endeavours be always successful, when engaged under the banner of justice.

May we always be able to resist the assaults of prosperity and adversity.

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May our conscience be found, tho' our fortune be rotten.

May temptation never conquer virtue.

Frugality without meaness.

May we be rich in friends, rather than money.

May we be loved by those whom we love.

May he who wants friendship also want friends.

May our distinguishing mark be merit, rather than money.

May we be slave to nothing but our duty, and friends to nothing but merit.

May we never seek applause from party principles, but always \deserve it from public spirit.

May we, as christians, be zealous without uncharitableness; as subjects, loyal without servility; and as citizens, free without faction.

May ability for doing good be equalled by inclination.

May our beneavolence be bounded only by our fortune.

May those who inherit the title of gentlemen by birth deserve it by their lives.

May fortune be always an attendant on virtue.

May we never swear a tradesman our of his dues, or a credulous girl out of her virtue.

Pleasures that please on reflection.

Community, unity, navigation, and trade.

More friends and less need of them.

May the man we love be honest, and the land we live in free.

May we always have a friend and know his value.

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May hemp bind him whom honour can't.

The two strangers at c--- [marginalia: court]. (Honour and Honesty.)

The agreeable rubs of life. [6]

The magical monosyllable. [7]

Sweet Briars. [???]

The road to a christening.

May we never want a friend, and a bottle to give him.

A head to earn, and a heart to spend.

The two friends who weep at meeting. [bawdy]

The key that lets the man in and the maid out.

The bird in hand, and then in the bush. [bawdy]

Delicate pleasure to susceptible minds.

The harvest of life, love, with and good humour.

The friend we love, and the woman we dare trust.

Provision to the unprovided.

May we have in our arms whom we love in our hearts.

The pleasure of pleasing.

The first game ever play'd at. [bawdy]

The nice house-maid.

The pleasure we enjoy face to face. [bawdy]

Up with the linen, down with the claret.

Breast work. [bawdy]

May they never want, who have spirit to spend.

Buckinger's boot. (Who had neither legs or arms.)

What charms, arms and disarms. [bawdy]

May we please and be pleased.

The female economist. [????]

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The union of two fond friends. [bawdy]

A woman's small and large beauties. [bawdy but what does it mean?]

Ligonier's livery. [????]

All true hearts and sound bottoms.

Love for love.

Love, fire, and frolic.

Your love for mine, and our's for that of the company

Love and opportunity.

Gaiety and innocence.

Success to our hopes, and enjoyment ot our wishes.

Taste to our pleasure, and pleasure to our taste.

Health, joy, and mutual love.

Love without fear,
And life without care.

Friendship without interest, and love without deceit.

All that gives you pleasure.

Health, love, and ready rino,
To all that you and I know.

May the evening's diversion bear the morning's reflection.

May our representatives strenuously defend what they have wisely resolved.

Union, stability, and fidelity among the sons of liberty.

Liberty, property, and no excise.

May all true hearts never want a shilling and a good bedfellow.

May all honest souls find a friend in need.

Good luck till we are tired of it.

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A cobweb pair of breeches, a porcupine saddle, a hard trotting horse, and a long journey, to the enemies of Great Britain.

May the wings of extravagancy be clipt by the shears of economy.

Confusion to those, who, wearing the mask of patriotism, pull it off, and desert the cause of liberty in the day of trial.

May genius and merit never want a friend.

The steady friends of Britain.

Sense to win a heart, and merit to keep it.

May the friends of England ever have access to the throne.

That freemen may never more be considered as property to be led to market.

May our representatives, like Free-masons, be elected by ballot.

The losing gamesters. [?????]

May he that made the d---l take us all. [devil]

Horses strong, foxes plenty; men stout, and women healty.

All that love can give or sensibility enjoy.

May we never speak to deceive, nor listen to betray.

Always provided nevertheless.

May nothing ever ail us or fail us.

May the honest heart never know distress.

The ladies -- standing. [does this mean that they would stand to drink the toast?]

May we never know sorrow but by the name.

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Peace and plenty.

May he that turns his back on his friend fall into the hands of his enemy.

The mouth that never had the tooth-ach. [Bawdy]

The bason that lathers two beards. [bawdy]

(1) HANS CARVEL'S RING: noun [late 18th century] the vagina ['Hans Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed that the Devil gave him a ring, which, so long as he habit on his finger, would prevent his being cuckold, waking, he found he had got his finger the Lord knows where' (Grose)]

(2) The vagina -- or a cruder word.

(3) aka "May your prick nor purse never fail you."

(4) The vagina -- or a cruder word.

(5) aka "May you not be impotent when you get there."

(6) aka "Here's to fucking."

(7) The vagina -- or a cruder word.