I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;
So fun of valour that they smote the air
For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
For kissing of their feet; yet always bending
Towards their project. Then I beat my tabour;
At which, like unbacked colts, they pricked their ears,
Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
As they smelt music: so I charm’d their ears
That calf-like they my lowing followed through
Toothed briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,
Which entered their frail shins.
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1. Ariel reports to Prospero that Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo were "red-hot with drinking" – intoxicated – when he left them. So much so that they beat the wind for blowing in their faces and the ground for touching their feet. Ariel said he beat his tabor, cast a spell on their ears and they followed the music through briers and thorns, which entered their frail shins.