Children's Bible

<h3>RIGHT EATING AND DRINKING</h3> <div class='poem2'> If you find honey, eat only what you need,<br/> That you may not be too full and be ill.<br/> <br/> Wine is a mocker, strong drink makes one quarrelsome,<br/> And whoever is misled by it is not wise.<br/> Who cries, "Woe"? who, "Alas"?<br/> Who has quarrels? Who complains?<br/> Who has wounds without cause?<br/> Who has redness of eyes?<br/> They who linger long over wine,<br/> They who go in to taste mixed wine.<br/> <br/> So look not on wine when it is red,<br/> When it sparkles in the cup,<br/> And glides down smoothly.<br/> At last it bites like a snake,<br/> And stings like an adder.<br/> <br/> Then you will see strange things,<br/> And your mind will be confused.<br/> You will be like one sleeping at sea,<br/> Like one asleep in a violent storm.<br/> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</SPAN></span>"I have been struck, but I feel no pain;<br/> I have been beaten, but I know it not.<br/> When shall I awake from my wine?<br/> I will seek it yet again."<br/></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />