1869 Drinking Cups and their Customs (Mixellany)

CUPS AND THEIB CUSTOMS,

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Loving-cup is strictly observed. The guests are only supposed to take one draught from it as it passes j but, in No. 110 of the € Quarterly Review/ a writer says, u Yet it chanced, not long since at the Temple, that, though the number present fell short of seventy, thirty-six quarts of the liquor were consumed.-" Julep, derived from the Persian word Julap (a sweet- ened draught), is a beverage spoken of by John Quineey, the physician, who died in 1723, and also mentioned by Milton in the lines— . . . . . ^Behold this cordial Julep here, That foams and dances in Ms crystal Ibounds, With spirits of "balm and fragrant syrups mix 1