Bartholomew Schidoni. 1560-1616.
I, too, was born in Arcadia.[793:1]
Footnotes
[793:1] Goethe adopted this motto for his "Travels in Italy."
John Sirmond. 1589(?)-1649.
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.[793:2]
Causæ Bibendi.
Footnotes
[793:2] 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.