_Squire Headlong._
(_taking the skull._) _Memento mori._ Come, a bumper of Burgundy.

_Mr Nightshade._
A very classical application, Squire Headlong. The Romans were in the
practice of adhibiting skulls at their banquets, and sometimes little
skeletons of silver, as a silent admonition to the guests to enjoy
life while it lasted.

_The Reverend Doctor Gaster._
Sound doctrine, Mr Nightshade.

_Mr Escot._
I question its soundness. The use of vinous spirit has a tremendous
influence in the deterioration of the human race.

_Mr Foster._
I fear, indeed, it operates as a considerable check to the progress of
the species towards moral and intellectual perfection. Yet many great
men have been of opinion that it exalts the imagination, fires the
genius, accelerates the flow of ideas, and imparts to dispositions
naturally cold and deliberative that enthusiastic sublimation which is
the source of greatness and energy.

_Mr Nightshade._
_Laudibus arguitur vini vinosus Homerus._[5.3]

_Mr Jenkison._
I conceive the use of wine to be always pernicious in excess, but