'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.

Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer and his gaiety and wit won for him the title of the English Anacreon in Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum. He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome's plays. Brome publiAlexander Bromed in 1666 a translation of Horace by himself and others and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654).

In 1661 following the Restoration he publiAlexander Bromed Songs and other Poems containing songs on various subjects followed by a series of political songs; ballads epistles elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations. Brome publiAlexander Bromed in 1666 a translation of Horace by himself and others and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654). Alexander Brome (1620 – 30 June 1666) was an English poet.