A. You will find it a much more prudent mixture, To take three parts of one, and four of th' other.
B. That's but a watery mixture, three to four. A. Would you, then, quite unmix'd your wine prefer? B. How say you?
37. And Timocles speaks of half-and-half in his Conisalus,—
And I'll attack you straight with half-and-half,
And make you tell me all the truth at once.
And Alexis, in his Dorcis, or the Caressing Woman, says—
I drink now cups brimming with love to you,
Mixed in fair proportions, half and half.
And Xenarchus, or Timocles, in his Purple, says—
By Bacchus, how you drink down half-and-half!
And Sophilus, in his Dagger, says,—
And wine was given in unceasing flow,
Mix'd half and half; and yet, unsatisfied,
They ask'd for larger and for stronger cups.
WINE.