| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Toasts |
| | | Quiet days, fair issue, and long life. Shakespeare. | 1 |
| | Drink to me only with thine eyes, |
| And I will pledge with mine. |
Ben Jonson. | 2 |
| | And he that will this health deny, |
| Down among the dead men let him lie. |
Dyer. | 3 |
| | To the old, long life and treasure; |
| To the young, all health and pleasure. |
Ben Jonson. | 4 |
| | The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth, |
| Now the king drinks to Hamlet. |
Shakespeare. | 5 |
| | Heres a health to the lass with the merry black eyes! |
| Heres a health to the lad with the blue ones! |
Wm. Winter. | 6 |
| | First pledge our Queen this solemn night, |
| Then drink to England, every guest; |
| That mans the best Cosmopolite |
| Who loves his native country best. |
Tennyson. | 7 |
| | My boat is on the shore, |
| And my bark is on the sea: |
| But, before I go, Tom Moore, |
| Heres a double health to thee! |
Byron. | 8 |
| | Were t the last drop in the well, |
| As I gaspd upon the brink, |
| Ere my fainting spirit fell, |
| Tis to thee that I would drink. |
Byron. | 9 | | |
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