Seeke other frendes, and ioyne not handes with suche.”
On the same subject we may refer to Love’s Labour’s Lost (act iv. sc. 3, l. 308, vol. ii. p. 151), to the long discourse or argument by Biron, in which he asks,—
“For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?”
The offensiveness of excess in wine is then well set forth (l. 333),—
“Love’s feeling is more soft and sensible,
Than are the tender horns of cockled snails;
Love’s tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste.”
On these words the best comment are two couplets from Whitney (p. 133), to the sentiment, Prudentes vino abstinent,—“The wise abstain from wine.”
