And he that will not pledge me this,
Pardonnez moi je vous au prie
Pays for the shot, whatever it is,
With never a penny of money.  (Chorus)

Charge it again, boys, charge it again,
Pardonnez moi je vous au prie
As long as you've got any ink in your pen
With never a penny of money (Chorus)

This was one of the drinking songs that I was taught as a "Singing Guard" for the 1985 Scenario at King Richard's Faire.  — Dean Calin

Credited to "Pills to Purge Melancholy," Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723) vol i. 1698 and 1707

"Another of Freemen's Songs to Three Voices in Deuteromelia.  "Romeo and Juliet," Act II, Scene 4, refers to "these pardonnez-mois who stand so much on the new form."  Dr. Johnson says, "Pardonnez moi became the language of doubt or hesitation among men of the sword, when the point of honor was grown so delicate that no other mode of contradiction would be endured."  — text accompanying an old photocopy from an un-credited song book.

"Pardonnez moi je vous au prie" translates to:  "I request that you forgive me."