“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
Act II, scene ii.
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, (c. 1617; revised c. 1627–30; published 1639)
“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
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