Or any other reason why.[793:2]

Causæ Bibendi.

Footnotes

[793:2] These lines are a translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the "Biographia Britannica," second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond:

Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:

Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;

Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.

Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172.


FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU.  1604-1655.