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Epigram. 52. In Ebrios.

Bacchum.

Why Drunkards should be so improuident,

And yet so often drinke a Deity:
To proue the cause I know no Argument,
But that they surfet in satiety.

Etiam mel si [illeg.] ingratū.

Hony, how holesome, and how full of pleasure,

And yet how hurtfull taken out of measure?