Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers,

Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers;

He the life of life abuses

That sits watering with the Muses.

Those dull girls no good can mean us;

Wine—it is the milk of Venus,

And the poet’s horse accounted:

Ply it, and you all are mounted.

’Tis the true Phœbian liquor,

Cheers the brains, makes wit the quicker;