Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.