1925 ca Buckstone Book of Cocktails

PMFACE from SHAKESPEARE TO COCKTAILS. By Sir Seymour Hicks. WHEN Mr. William Shakespeare— who has had so many of his parts murdered that Scotland Yard has long ceased to arrest dull "Dogberrys" and funny "Hamlets"—welcomed hungry guests to one of his historic banquets, he did so, not only with a generous gesture of hospi tality, but with something more delightful still—solicitude for their well-being on the morning after. From the mouth of a gaily decked out page he, probably remembering the culin ary efforts of Anne Hathaway, cried, "May- good digestion wait on appetite and health, or both." It may, however, be unfair to blame his lady's pasties for this kindly wish, so let us be charitable for once to the wife of a man of genius (though the world is well aware that the majority of these unfortunate women have never been anything but profoundly stupid individuals) and suppose it likely that as the Bard sat scribbling in an almost inde cipherable hand immortal verse for mortal "Rogues and Vagabonds," he dipped his goose quill into some local potent liquor,.