1871 Oxford Night Caps a collection of receipts for making various beverages used in the university

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In banquet-hall 'tie meetest To raise the echoing laugh : In jocund hour 'tie sweetest The bowl's deep flood to qi::Uf. Aye ! let your mirth be loud and long ! Let voice and heart be free ! And 'midst the din of shout and song Let all feast merrily ! Go forth, my sons, to glory ! Go climb the steeps of fame ! Go ! and in future story Enrol your shining name ! May no dark cloud obscure your sky; No fear your soul dismay; Nor keener sorrow dim your eye Than claims the tear to day !

lledpe. Three quarts of ale, sweetened with re– fined sugar finely pulverised, and served up in a bowl with six roasted apples floating in it.

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