'By the Mass,' he cried at last, 'I have never had so much honest amusement out of my prosperity as hath been caused in me by my downfall.

Fill up your glasses!' 'We have still some distance to travel this evening, and must not drink more,' I observed, for prudence told me that it was dangerous work for two sober country lads to keep pace with an experienced toper.
'So!' said he in surprise.

'I should have thought that would be a "raison de plus," as the French say.

But I wish your long-legged friend would come back, even if he were intent upon slitting my weazand for my attention to the widow.

He is not a man to flinch from his liquor, I'll warrant.