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CUPS AND THEIR
CUSTOMS.
Politically
speaking
(but,
then,
politics are not
My trade) |
Exception should be made
In Doctor
Malfby's
favour.
u
In Tino veritas " they say 5
but
that
J
s a
fable,
A most egregious blunder.
I Ve "been at many a wine-bibbing ere
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}
And
yow,
Tor one that told the truth across the table,
I Ve seen a dozen
lying
under.
Besides^ as old Sam Johnson said once, I
J
Ye no patience
With men who never tell the sober truth
Butwhen they 'redrank,andaren'ttobebelieved^
forsooth,
Except in their fifi-bations.
Oh! do not think, you who these praises hear,
Dont think my muse
be-mused
with beer,
Nor that in speaking thus my pleasure
I go beyond beer measure.
But
stay,
It
5
s time to end this lay j
Tho' I could go on rhyming for a year
In praise of Beer,
And think it sport j
But many folks I know like something short.
IEE E CUPS .
THESE
emps shoul d alway s "be mad e wit h goo d soun d
ale, bu t no t too stron g j and shoul d invariabl y be dran k
from th e tankard , and no t poure d int o glasses ^ as the y
are generall y mor e agreeabl e t o th e tast e tha n to th e
sight , and it is imperativ e tha t the y shoul d be kep t hot .
Hot JJe Cmp.
To a quar t of ale , heated , add two wine-glasse s of