Gosport tragedy, or, The perjured ship carpenter/The Relief by the Bowl

The RELIEF by the BOWL

SINCE drinking has power to bring us relief,
⁠Come fill up the bowl, and the pox on all grief,
we find that won't do, we'll have ſuch another;
and ſo will proceed from one bowl to another;
all, like ſons of Apollo, we'll make our wits ſoar,
⁠in honour to Bacchus fall down on the floor.

⁠Apollo and Bacchus were both merry ſouls,
⟨bot⟩h of them delighted to toſs off their bowls;
⟨th⟩en let us to ſhow ourſelves mortals of merit,
⟨in⟩ toaſting the gods in a bowl of good claret,
⟨and⟩ then we ſhall each be deſerving of praiſe:
⁠the man that drinks moſt ſhall go off with the bays.