Tixall Poetry/Another ("The delights of the bottle…")
XX.
Another.
The delights of the bottle, and the charmes of good wine,To the power and the pleasures of love must resigne; Though the ioyes of the night in good drinking be past,The debauch but untill the next morning doth last;But loves great debauch is more lasting and strong,For that often lasts a man all his life long.
Love and wine are the bonds that fasten us all,The world but for these to confusion would fall;Were it not for the pleasures of love and good wine,Mankind for each trifle there lives would resigne:Thei'd not value there lives, nor would speake without thinking,Nor would kings rule the world but for love and good drinking.