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CUPS AND THEIR CUSTOMS.
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effected than by using the words of the witty Dr.
King ;—
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0 Peggy* Peggy, when thou. go'st to "brew,
Consider well what you
f
re about to do;
Be very wise—very sedately think
That what you
J
re going to mate is—drink;
Consider who must drink that
dnnk
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and then
What 'tis to have the praise of honest men 5
Then future ages shall of Peggy tell,
The nymph who spiced the "brewages so well."
Bespeeting the size of the cup no fixed rule can be
laid down, because it must mainly depend upon the
number who have to partake of it; and be it remem-
bered that, as cups are not intended to be quaffed
ad
Kbitum,
as did Bieias, of whom Cornelius Agrippa
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To Bicias shee it gave, and sayd,
1
Drink of this cup of myne
f
He quickly quafte it, and left not
Of licoure any sygne/'
let
quality
prevail over
quantity,
and try to hit a happy
medium between the eup of Nestor, which was so large
that a young man could not carry it, and the country
half-pint of our own day^ which we have heard of as
being so small that a string has to be tied to it to pre-
vent it slipping down with the cider.
In order to appreciate the delicacy of a well-com-
pounded eupj we would venture to suggest this laconic
e^ " When you drink—think/*