Monday, September 17, 2007

A literary drinking bon mot for the week

"Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
Best, while you have it, use your breath.
There is no drinking after death."

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Posted by Froog at 12:05 AM
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Anonymous said...

Mr Henry Purcell was a famed p1ss artist as well as court composer.

His wife told him: "I'm not letting you in if you come back drunk." He did, she did; he got pneumonia and died; she was left pennyless. Nothing more heard of their kids.

In the meantime, he wrote drinking songs, some obscene.

My fave ends "so go thy way distainful sow; good claret be my mistress now".

And that, Mr Blue Barstool is a sound sentiment.

7:50 PM, September 24, 2007

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