1860 Oxford Night Caps

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POSSET. From fam*d Barljadoes, on the "western maioj Fetch sugar, ounces four; fetch sack from Spain A pint; and from the Eastern Indian coast Nutmeg,the glory of our northern toast; O'er flaming coals let them together heat, Till the all-conquering sack dissolve the sweet; O'er such another fire put eggs just ten, New-born from tread ofcock and rump of hen; Stir them with steady hand and conscience pricking, To see th' untimely end of ton fine ehicken: From shining shelf take down the brazen skellet, A quart of milk from gentle cow will fill it; "When boil d and cold, put milk and sack to eggs. Unite them firmly like the triple league. And on the fire let them together dwell Till miss sing twice—you must not kiss and tell:

Each lad and lass take up a silver spoon. And fall on fiercely like a starved dragoon.

Sir Fletitioood Fletcher's Sach Posset.

Posset, it seems, is a medicated drink of some antiquity; for among the numerous English authors "who in some "way or other speak of it, our immortal Bard Shakspeare has made one of his characters say, "We'll