Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.

The line contrasts festive abundance—food (“meat”) and lively drink (“frolic wine”)—with something that surpasses both. In Herrick’s lyric mode, such phrasing typically heightens a scene of conviviality or celebration by implying that the true delight is not the banquet itself but a superior pleasure (often love, beauty, or the presence of a beloved). The verb “outdid” suggests a competitive excess: whatever is being praised eclipses ordinary sensual satisfactions. Even without the surrounding stanza, the diction points to Herrick’s characteristic carpe-diem sensibility, where transient pleasures are cataloged and then surpassed by a more intense, often interpersonal joy.