Nr. 264
Calcutta nr. 264
Drink the wine always with wise people
Or drink it with a laughing mistress with smooth cheeks
Do not drink much or publicly & do not grieve
Drink a little, drink from time to time & drink quite secretly.
Payne 1898 - 439
Wine, if thou needs must drink, with men of sense and wit drink,
Or fair ones, tulip-cheeked and lips with laughter lit, drink :
Drink seldom; tell it not and make no practice of it;
In season nor o'ermuch and still in secret it drink.
Thompson 1906 - 479
If wine you drink, with wise men let it be.
Or with fair tulip-cheeked ones laughingly;
Drink seldom, tell it not, nor practice it.
Drink little, now and then, but secretly!