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Fair Hebe I left, with a cautious design
To escape from her charms, and to drown them in wine,
I tried it; but found, when I came to depart,
The wine in my head, and still love in my heart.

— John West, 1st Earl De La Warr

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Variants

The Vocal Companion: or, Songster's Delight (1759), p. 117; The Muse's Banquet; or, Compleat Songster (1760), p. 121; The Bull-finch ([1760]), p. 212; Charles Mackay (ed.) The Book of English Songs (1850), p. 63

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