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Nr. 146

Calcutta nr. 146

If I do not suffer the effects of the nights wine
My choice is not to drink wine by day
You say do not choose to drink wine by day
In day wine-drinking my choice does not lie.

Payne 1898 - 410
If headache from yesternight's wine were not for me,
Day-drinking, by choice of mine, were not for me:
"Day-drinking," quotha, "then choose." By day the bliss
Of seeing that face of thine were not for me.

Thompson 1906 - 784
If I no headache got from last night’s wine,
Drinking by daylight ne'er were choice of mine.
Sayest thou then ''Choose thou to drink by day?"
Day drinking ne'er to fortune doth incline.