Si bene commemini, causse sunt quinque bibendi; Hospitis adventus, prjesens sitis, atque futura, Aut vini bonitas, aut quaelibet altera causa.
If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink; Good wine — a friend — or being dry— Or lest we should be by and by— Or any other reason why. Attributed to Pere Sirmond by Menage and De la Monnoye. See Menagiana, Volume I. P. 172. Given in Isaac J. Reeve's Wild Garland, Volume II. Trans by Henry Aldrich.
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