[1.] Dijon, chief city in Burgundy.
[2.] Tit. Liv. lib. iv. ch. 14.
[3.] Alex. ab Alex, lib, ii. ch. 11.
[4.] Voyag. de Chard. t. ii. 129.
[CHAP. XXXI.]
FIFTH RULE, TO FORCE NO ONE TO DRINK.
It is very ridiculous and unreasonable to force any one to drink, because the taking away liberty spoils company, the benefit of which cannot subsist without freedom. Besides, every man’s capacity of drinking is not the same; one shall be able to drink a gallon, and another a pint; the latter, therefore, by drinking a pint, has drank as much as the former when he has taken off his gallon, because they both have drank as they can, and ——— Ferdinando ——— No man can do more than he can do. Let every man, therefore, have the liberty to drink as he pleases, without being tied up to the mad laws of drinking. I am of the same opinion in this matter with brother Horace:—
—————— Prout cuiq; libide est
Siccat inequales calices conviva solutus
Legibus insanis, sen quis capit acria fortis
Pocula, seu modicis humescit lætius——[a]