Quid dico—Hic situs est? his potius sitis est.
Thus freely rendered by Oldys:—
Dead drunk here Elderton doth lie;
Dead as he is, he still is dry;
So of him it may well be said,
Here he, but not his thirst, is laid.
A MS., time of James I., possessed by J. P. Collier, mentions, in further confirmation:
Will Elderton’s red nose is famous everywhere,
And many a ballet shows it cost him very dear;