Original artwork, not a still
A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
This fragment opens a string of merry activities: dancing, drinking, laughing and taking pleasure without much thought. The linked continuation supplies that festive mood; the excerpt does not identify a particular party or recommend drinking.
Sources (1)
- Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (1891)Dryden, The Secular Masque, line 40Reference checked
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