It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery it makes him and it mars him it sets him on and it takes him off. (William Shakespeare)

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery it makes him and it mars him it sets him on and it takes him off.

William Shakespeare

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