9506. John Sirmond. 1589 (?)-1649. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	9506
AUTHOR:	John Sirmond (1589 (?)–1649)
QUOTATION:	If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink,— Good wine, a friend, because I ’m dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why. 1
ATTRIBUTION:	Causæ Bibendi.

Note 1.
These lines are a translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the “Biographia Britannica,” second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond:

Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:
Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;
Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.
Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172. [back]

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