If the papers of my bonds and bills could drink as well as I do, my creditors would not want for wine when they come to see me, or when they are to make any formal exhibition of their rights to what of me they can demand.

This hand of yours spoils your nose.

O how many other such will enter here before this go out! What, drink so shallow?
It is enough to break both girds and petrel.

This is called a cup of dissimulation, or flagonal hypocrisy.
What difference is there between a bottle and a flagon.

Great difference; for the bottle is stopped and shut up with a stopple, but the flagon with a vice (La bouteille est fermee a bouchon, et le flaccon a vis.).