Is sweet as measure pedder.

[Followed, in An Antidote, by the excellent poems, The Cavalier’s Complaint; to the tune of (Suckling’s) I’le tell thee, Dick, &c., with The Answer. For these, see Merry Drollery, Compleat, pp. 52-56, and 367.]:

[p. 52.]

On a Pint of Sack.

Old poets Hipocrin admire,

And pray to water to inspire

Their wit and Muse with heavenly fire;

Had they this Heav’nly Fountain seen,

Sack both their Well and Muse had been,

And this Pint-pot their Hipocrin.