“Drink, pretty creature, drink!”
The Pet Lamb. A Pastoral, st. 1 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“Drink is in itself a good creature of God, but the abuse of drink is from Satan.”
As quoted in The Truth About Alcohol (2005) by Barry Youngerman and Mark J. Kittleson, p. 129.
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