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When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire, I haul my sail, look up around, In search of Whitbread's best entire. - Unattributed Author,

And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel!

Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing, Singing will make a man laugh, And laughing long life doth bring, Says old Simon the King. - Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,

Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.

Here With my beer I sit, While golden moments flit: Alas! They pass Unheeded by: And as they fly, I, Being dry, Sit, idly sipping here My beer.

Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid.

Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves; And they gave me this jolly red nose.

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

What harm in drinking can there be, Since punch and life so well agree?

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

It's a long time between drinks.

There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.

If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad company by doing so."

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.

Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly.

Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in the Earth and are With constant Drinking fresh and fair.