C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Toasts

Quiet days, fair issue, and long life.

Shakespeare.

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine.

Ben Jonson.

And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.

Dyer.

To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.

Ben Jonson.

The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,
“Now the king drinks to Hamlet.”

Shakespeare.

Here’s a health to the lass with the merry black eyes!
Here’s a health to the lad with the blue ones!

Wm. Winter.

First pledge our Queen this solemn night,
Then drink to England, every guest;
That man’s the best Cosmopolite
Who loves his native country best.

Tennyson.

My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea:
But, before I go, Tom Moore,
Here’s a double health to thee!

Byron.

Were ’t the last drop in the well,
As I gasp’d upon the brink,
Ere my fainting spirit fell,
’Tis to thee that I would drink.

Byron.