Henry King, Bishop of Chichester To One That Demaunded Why The Wine Sparkles Wee doe not give the wine a sparkling name As if wee meant those sparkes emply’d a flame; The flame lyes in our bloud: And ’tis desire Fed by loose appetite setts us on fire. He that drinks wine for health, nor for excess, Nor drownes his temper in a drunkenness, Shall feel no more the wines unruly fate, Then in he dranke some chilling Opiate. |
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