1827 Oxford Night Caps

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Such is the intoxicating property of this liquor, that none but hard drinkers will venture to regale themselves with it a second time.

THE OXFORD GRACE CUP.

Tlic grace cup serv'd, the cloth away, Jove thought it time to shew his play.

Prior.

The ancient Grace Cup was a vessel pro portioned to the number of the company assembled, which went round the table, the guests drinking out of the same cup one after another. Virgil describes something like it, when,speaking of the entertainment Queen Dido gave to ^neas,he says, Postquam prima quies epulis, meussque remot® ; Cratcras niagnos statuunt, et vina coronaut. ••••••••••

Hie regina gravem gemmis auroque poposcit Iroplevitque mero pateram • • ••• ••• •• • • • • •