"Neither desire I, you should be so abstemious, as not to remember a friend with a hearty draught since wine was created to make the heart merry, for what is the life of man if it want wine?  Moderately taken it preserveth health, comforteth and disperseth the natural heat over all the whole body, allayes choleric humors, expelling the same with sweat and tempereth melancholly."

                                                                                                                            Henry Peacham
                                                                                                                            Peacham's Compleat Gentleman
                                                                                                                            1634