Wine, Beere, Ale, and Tobacco: A Seventeenth Century InterludeThe University, 1915 - 54 pages |
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Page 50 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood...
Page 48 - It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 48 - Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 12 - s come from a far country To make our nose a chimney. Kawasha. The wine takes the contrary way To get into the hood ; But good tobacco makes no stay, But seizeth where it should. More incense hath burned at Great Kawasha's foot Than to Silen and Bacchus both, And take in Jove to boot.
Page 5 - Wine, Beere, and Ale, Together by the Eares. A Dialogue, Written first in Dutch by Gallobelgicus, and faithfully translated out of the originall Copie, by Mercurius Brittanicus, for the benefite of his Nation.
Page 11 - There is not so base a groome, that commes into an Ale-house to call for his pot, but he must have his pipe of Tobacco, for it is a commoditie that is nowe as vendible in every Taverne, Inne, and Ale-house, as eyther Wine, Ale, or Beare...
Page 53 - Tis at your service, gallants, and the tobacco too ; 'tis right pudding, I can tell you : a lady or two took a pipe full or two at my hands, and praised it 'fore the heavens.
Page 50 - Wife. That's my good lamb, George. — Fie, this stinking tobacco kills me ! would there were none in England ! — Now, I pray, gentlemen, what good does this stinking tobacco do you ? nothing, I warrant you : make chimneys o' your faces !] SCENE III.— A Grocer's Shop.
Page 49 - ... to sale, either in the church or some other place assigned to that purpose. Then when this is set abroche, well is he that can gette the soonest to it, and spend the most at it.
Page 48 - ... (Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. Hill, III, 381). The apportionment of wine to the court, beer to the city, and ale to the country is in accordance with tradition and fact. Cf. Fynes Moryson, Itinerary, Ed. of 1907, IV, 176: "Clownes and vulgar men onely use large drinking of Beere or Ale, how much soever it is esteemed excellent drinke even among strangers; but Gentlemen garrawse onely in Wine.