كل هنيئاً وما شربت مريئاً

كل هنيئاً وما شربت مريئاً

ثم قم صاغراً وأنت ذميم

ثم قم صاغراً وأنت ذميم

Eat with relish, and may your drink go down well;

Eat with pleasure, and may what you have drunk go down well.

Happy wishes abound though you drink naught

then rise abject, for you are contemptible.

Then rise, abased and blameworthy.

Then rise, humbled, though you are mean

لا أحب النديم يومض بالطر

لا أحب النديم يومض بالطر

ف إذا ما خلا بعرسٍ نديم

ف إذا ما خلا بعرسٍ نديم

I cannot abide a companion who signals with a glan—

I do not like the drinking companion who winks with his eye

I love not the companion who flashes his teeth

—ce whenever he is alone with another companion’s wife.

when alone with a drinking companion’s wife.

When left alone at a wedding, companion