“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”

Earlier proverb, quoted in James Howell's English Proverbs (1659)
Better belly burst than good drink lost.
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

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