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 What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it 
ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
 [Lat., read more 
 What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it 
ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
 [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;
  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.] 
 Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance,
 Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd
  Into read more 
 Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance,
 Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd
  Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear,
   Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat,
    All other parts remaining as they were;
     And they, so perfect in their misery,
      Not once perceive their foul disfigurement. 
 I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a 
drunkard! Had I as read more 
 I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a 
drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would 
stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and 
presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, 
and the ingredient is a devil. 
 Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day;
 Let other hours be set apart for business,
  To-day it is read more 
 Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day;
 Let other hours be set apart for business,
  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;
   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. 
 (Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool?
 (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught read more 
 (Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool?
 (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught 
above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third 
drowns him. 
 I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, 
but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should read more 
 I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, 
but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in 
their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with 
joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into 
beasts! 
 Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation
 Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,
  And read more 
 Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation
 Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,
  And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication
   Which is more sober far than all sobriety. 
 In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
 My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,
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 In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
 My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,
  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,
   Upon malicious knavery does thou come
    To start my quiet. 
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.