"When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames."

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Poets from EnglandPeople from EnglandEnglish male poetsPoets from the United Kingdom17th-century English poets
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To Althea: From Prison, st. 2. Compare: "A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii, Scene 1.