Monday, November 24, 2003
Drinking
They call drinking deep, dyeing scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they cry 'hem!' and bid you play it off. To conclude, I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour, that I can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life.
Prince Henry in The First part of King Henry the Fourth (SCENE IV. The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap)
Prince Henry in The First part of King Henry the Fourth (SCENE IV. The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap)