When flowing cups pass swiftly round

With no allaying Thames.

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658): To Althea from Prison, ii.

Then shall our names,

Familiar in his mouth as household words,—

Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,

Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,—

Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.

O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,

But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,

And heightens ease with grace.

James Thomson (1700-1748): The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 26.