The author of the new Sophonisba taketh hold of this monosyllable, and uses it pretty much to the same purpose:—
"The Carthaginian sword with Roman blood
Was drunk."
I would ask Mr. D—s which gives him the best idea, a drunken king, or a drunken sword?
Mr. Tate dresses up king Arthur's resolution in heroic:
"Merry, my lord, o' th' captain's humour right,
I am resolved to be dead drunk to-night."
Lee also uses this charming word:
"Love's the drunkenness of the mind."—"Gloriana."
[80] Dryden hath borrowed this, and applied it improperly: