1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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With lean Small Beer, but that thou art not worth My Anger, else I'de frown thee into Earth. — I neither fear your Frown, nor court your Smile ; But, if I'm not mistaken all this while, By other names than Claret you are known

Darby.

Claret.— Yow do not hear me. Sir, the Fact disown, Some call me Barcelona, some Navar, Some Syracuse, but at the Vintner's Bar My name's Red Port. But call

me what they will,

Claret I am, and will be Claret still," etc., etc.

Not content

our

with

the

praising

liquor

ale,

to eulogising the vessels used for its

ancestors

fell

consumption, and the

** Black Jack " and

'* Leather

Bottel " both came in for their meed of praise. sketches of a fine example of each, which I have drawn from the national collection in the British Museum. The Black Jack is a jug or pitcher, made of leather, which was sometimes ornamented with a silver rim and a silver plate with the owner's name or coat of arms engraved thereon. Here is a short lyric, "In praise of the Black Jack."^ I give

^ See second part of Westaminster Drollery ^

1672.