1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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PART II.

CUPS, AND SOCIAL DEINKS. — —

The words “ cup ” and “ bumper,” and many other of our social terms, can be traced to the con- of dedicating a cup to a favourite deity led, by an easy — the origin of modern toasts. According to Casaubon, the ancients took three cups at their banquets : one, to vivial usages of the ancients. The custom transition, to that of pledging each other

and a third, as

another, for pleasure ;

allay thirst ;

a libation to Jupiter Servator :

Ho Ho Ho

Brim full to the new moon. Brim full for the midnight.

! boy, there, a cup ! ! hoy, there, a cup ! ! hoy, there, a cup !

Brim full to the health Of him we would honour, Murena the Augur.

Horace.