I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)