1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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The rhymester recapitulates the oratltude of all classes for this extremely handy and unbreakable con- venience, and winds up thus, somewhat sadly

"Then when the Bottel doth grow old, And will good Liquor no longer hold. Out of its side you may take a Clout, Will mend your Shooes when they'r worn out Else take it, and hang it upon a Fin,

It will serve to put many Trifles in, As Hinges, Awls, and Candle-ends, For young Beginners must have such things. Then I wish, etc." The next most popular English drinking vessel was th^ g7^eybea7^d, or as it was sometimes, but seldom, called the Bellarmine, from the Cardinal o{ that name so famous for his controversial works. These jugs were imported largely from the Low Countries, where the Cardinal's name was a reproach. These greybeards are of very common occurrence, being frequently found in excavating on the sites of old houses. Two centuries after the greybeard, came the brown Staffordshire Toby Philpot, an enormously stout old gentleman, whose arms and hands encircle his enormous paunch, and his three-cornered hat forms a most convenient lip, whence the ale can be poured. It owes its origin to a once very popular drinking song, entitled " The Brown Jug/' which is an imitation from the Latin of Hieronymus Amaltheus^ by Francis Fawkes, M.A., published in 1 761, which is the date of the accompanying illustration. "Dear Tom, this brown jug, which now foams with mild ale^ Out of which I now drink to sv/eet Nan of the Yale,