My health was gone, my senses lost.

I found the claret and champagne

Inflame my blood, and mad my brain;

The toast fell falt’ring from my tongue,

I hardly heard the catch I sung.

I felt my gorge and sickness rise;

The candle danc’d before my eyes;

My sight grew dim, the room turn’d round,

I tumbled senseless to the ground.

Henry Erskine.