To conclude, let any one allege this verse as a maxim, that
Pocula non lædunt paucula, multa nocent.
It does no harm to take a glass or two,
But in great numbers mighty ills accrue.
And I shall do myself the honour to answer him with another verse, that sometimes
Una salus sanis multam potare salutem[12].
The only health to people hale and sound,
Is to have many a tippling health go round.
And that this is true, witness the great Hippocrates, who says,
That what to health conduceth best,