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GIN.
Massiiger's
Du'ze
of
Milan
—
Pope's
Epilogue
to
Satires
—
The
Bun-
dad—
WiXi'idim
III.—
Lord
Hervey
—
Sir
R.
Walpolc—
The
Fall
of
Madame
Geneva
—
Hogarth's
Gin
Lane
—
Schiedam
Adulter-
ation
—
Gin
Sling
—
Captain
Dudley
Bradstreet
—
Tom
and
Jerry
Hawthorn.
GIN
is
an
alcoholic
drink
distilled
from
malt
or
from
unmalted
barley
or
other
grain,
and
after-
wards
rectified
and
flavoured.
The
word
is
French,
genievre,
juniper,
corrypted
intO'
Geneva,
and
sub-
sequently
into
its
present
form.
It
is
to
the
berries
of
the
juniper
that
the
best
Hollands
owes
its
flavour.
Perhaps
one
of
the
earliest
allusions
to
gin
is
in
Massingers
Dttke
of
Milan
(1623),
Act
I.,
scene
i.,
when
Graccho,
a
creature
of
Mariana,
says
to
the
courtier
Julio,
of
a
chance
drunkard,
*'Bid
him
sleep
;
'Tis
a
sign
he
has
ta'en
his
liquor,
and
if
you
meet
Ah
officer
preaching
of
sobriet}',
Unless
he
read
it
in
Geneva
print,
Lay
him
by
the
heels."