Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set…

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
Today it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Sourced, Tom Thumb the Great (1730)

Act I, sc. ii

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