Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff
GIVE me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out "hold, enough!" You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection: For, bless my beard, they aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
John Keats
GIVE me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out "hold, enough!" You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection: For, bless my beard, they aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
John Keats packs a playful, rebellious punch into these six lines. The speaker declares he wants women, wine, and snuff — a powdered tobacco — until he’s forced to shout “enough!” No one can reasonably object, he jokes, until Judgment Day.
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