...Drink has universally been a potion that turns a man into a beast: Michael Cassio exclaims, "O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts," and Thomas Nashe divided drunkards...

...thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! It hath pleased the devil drunkenness...

...a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O, that men should 270 put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! IAGO Why, but you are now well enough....

...loathsome'. (Ind., i-34f.) If he were 'sensible', he would wonder with Cassio, Othello's drunken lieutenant, 'that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That . . . [men] should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform . . . [themselves to] beasts!'...

...that Nic has used meth. I had my own experience with that drug, too. PART II his drug of choice O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest...