 Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

"Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" is a popular old song, the lyrics of which are the song "" by the English playwright Ben Jonson, first published in 1616.After this song had been popular for almost two centuries, scholars began to discern that its imagery and rehtoric were largely lifted from classical sources - particularly one of the erotic "Epistles" of Philostratus the Athenian (c. 170 – 250 BC).