John Trapp on Proverbs 31:5

Verſ. 5 Leſt they drink and forget the Law] Drunkenneſſe cauſeth forgetfulneſs, (hence the Ancients feigned Bacchus to bee the ſonne of forgetfulneſs) and ſtands in full oppoſition to reaſon and religion: when the Wine is in, the Wit is out.Plutarch. in Sympoſ. Seneca ſaith, that for a man to think to be drunk, and yet to retain his right reaſon, is to think to drink rank poyſon, and yet not to dye by it.

And pervert the judgement, &c.] Pronounce an unrighteous ſentence: which when Philip King of Macedony once did, the poor woman, whoſe cauſe it was, preſently appealed from Philip now drunk, to Philp when hee ſhould be ſober again. The Carthaginians made a Law, that no Magiſtrate of theirs ſhould drink wine. The Perſians permitted their Kings to be drunk one day in a year only. Solon made a Law at Athens, that drunkenneſs in a Prince ſhould be puniſhed with death. See Eccleſ. 10.16, 17.