111 / 374
DRINKS.
Ill
"
A
flask
of
cider
from
his
father's
vats,
Prime,
which
I
knew."
Tennyson
:
Andlcy
Court.
We
have
little
information
about
cider
either
from
the
Greeks
or
the
Latins.
It
would
seem
that
it
was
not
known
to
them,
if
we
may
trust
Ainsworth,
who
translates
cider
by
succics
e
pomis
expre^sus,
and
Byzantlus,
who
gives
iuiti\iT}]g
(ofi/o?)
elS.
irordv
as
the
equivalent
for
cidre}
Gerard,
in
his
Histdrie
of
Plants,
published
in
1597,
says
that
he
saw
in
the
pastures
and
hedgerows
about
the
grounds
of a
*'
worshipful
gentleman,"
dwelling
two
miles
from
Hereford,
called
M.
Roger
Bodnome,
so
many
trees
of
all
sorts
that
the
servants
drunk
for
the
most
part
no
other
drink
but
that
which
is
made
from
apples.
The
quantity,
says
Gerard,
was
such
that
by
the
report
of
the
gentleman
himself,
the
parson
"
hath
for
tithe
many
hogsheads
of
Syder."
This
reference
to
the
servants
and
the
parson
drinking
it,
but
not
to
the
"
gentleman,"
seems
to
show
that
the
liquor
was
not
then
held
in
much
esteem.
Bacon
placed
cider
after
wine,
and
we
have
followed
in
our
arrangement
of
the
present
volume
his
august
example.
This
great
philosopher
speaks
of
cider
and
perry
as
''notable
beverages
on
sea-
voyages."
The
cider
of
his
day
did
not,
he
says,
sour
by
crossing
the
line,
and
was
good
against
sea-sickness.
He
also
speaks
of
cider,
a
''
wonderful
pleasing
and
refreshing
drink,"
in
his
New
Allaniis.
^
In
a
treatise
of
tlie
Talmid,
Abqdah
Zarah,
fol.
40,
col,
2,
cider
is
called
''wine
of
aj>plcs,"