Lo! Here I stand with double face,
My name exalted in high place;
A creature, symbol or a crown,
Identifies me round the town.
I see below me all mankind:
In search of comfort of a liquid kind,
While some give out that I entice
To lust, and luxury, and dice,
And diverse oaths on me inflict,
Because they find their pockets picked.
Though I’m a comforter to many lives
’Tis said I steal health, wealth and wives.