A. Would you now like, my dearest friend, to drink?
B. No doubt I should.
A. Well come, then, take a cup;
For they do say the first three cups one takes
All tend to th' honour of the heavenly gods.
And Alexis, in his Female Dancer, says—
A. But women are quite sure to be content
If they have only wine enough to drink.
B. But, by the heavenly twins, we now shall have
As much as we can wish; and it shall be
Sweet, and not griping,—rich, well-season'd wine,
Exceeding old.
A. I like this aged sphinx;
For hear how now she talks to me in riddles.
And so on. And, in his Jupiter the Mourner, he mentions a certain woman named Zopyra, and says—
Zopyra, that wine-cask.
Antiphanes, in his Female Bacchanalians—
But since this now is not the case, I'm sure
He is a wretched man who ever marries
Except among the Scythians; for their country
Is the sole land which does not bear the vine.
And Xenarchus, in his Pentathlum, says—
I write a woman's oath in mighty wine.
58. Plato, in his Phaon, relating how many things happen to women because of wine, says—