Dainty Davie

By drinking drive dull care away,

Be brisk and airy, Never vary

In your tempers, but be gay;

Let mirth know no cessation:

We all were born, mankind agree,

From dull reflection to be free,

But he that drinks not, cannot be:

Then answer your creation.

When Cupid wounds, grave Hymen heals,

Then all our whining, Wishing, striving,

To embrace what beauty yields,

Is left when in possession;

But Bacchus sends such treasure forth,

Possession never palls its worth,

We always wish'd for't from our birth,

And shall for ever wish on.