Philocothonista, or, The drunkard, opened, dissected, and anatomized

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Title: Philocothonista, or, The drunkard, opened, dissected, and anatomized
Author: Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
Publication: London :: Printed by Robert Raworth; and are to be sold at his house neere the White-Hart Taverne in Smithfield,; 1635.
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Subject terms: Alcoholics -- Early works to 1800.
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Thus Interpreted.CAlues, Goates, Swine, Asses, at a Banquet set,To graspe Health's in their Hooff's, thou seest here met;Why wonder'st thou oh Drunkard, to beholdThy brothers? In whose ranke thou art inrowled,When thou (so oft, as tox't at any Feast)Can'st bee no better held, then such a beast,Since, like Cyrcaean Cups, Wine doth surpriseThy sences, and thy reason stupifies,Which Foe, would Warre-like Brittaine quite expell,No Nation like it, could bee said to excell.T.H.