"If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by and by, Or any other reason why."
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Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.
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Henry Aldrich
Henry Aldrich (1647 – 14 December 1710) was an English theologian and philosopher. He composed several epigrams.
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