1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

PAR T II.

CUPS, AND SOCIAL DRINKS.

THE words "cup" and "bumper/' and many other of our social terms, can be traced to the con- vivial usages of the ancients. The custom of dedicating a cup to a favourite deity led, by an easy transition, to that of pledging each other—the origin of modern toasts. According to Casaubon, the ancients took three cups at their banquets : one, to allay thirst; another, for pleasure ; and a third, as a libation to Jupiter Servator : Ho! boy, there, a cup ! Brim full to the new moon. Ho ! boy, there, a cup ! Brim full for the midnight.

Ho! boy, there, a cup ! Brim full to the health Of him we would honour, Murena the Augur.

Horace.