Tu puerum leviter posce, quod ipsa velis.
Quae tu reddideris, ego primus pocula sumam,
Et qua tu biberis, hac ego parte bibam.
Ovid, Amores, I. iv. 15-32.
Thenceforth to her he sought to intimate
His inward grief, by meanes to him well knowne:
Now Bacchus fruit out of the silver plate
He on the table dasht as overthrowne,
Or of the fruitfull liquor overflowne,
And by the dancing bubbles did divine,