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DRINKS.
The
rhymester
recapitulates
the
oratltude
of
all
classes
for
this
extremely
handy
and
unbreakable
con-
venience,
and
winds
up
thus,
somewhat
sadly
"Then
when
the
Bottel
doth
grow
old,
And
will
good
Liquor
no
longer
hold.
Out
of
its
side
you
may
take
a
Clout,
Will
mend
your
Shooes
when
they'r
worn
out
Else
take
it,
and
hang
it
upon
a
Fin,
It
will
serve
to
put
many
Trifles
in,
As
Hinges,
Awls,
and
Candle-ends,
For
young
Beginners
must
have
such
things.
Then
I
wish,
etc."
The
next
most
popular
English
drinking
vessel
was
th^
g7^eybea7^d,
or
as
it
was
sometimes,
but
seldom,
called
the
Bellarmine,
from
the
Cardinal
o{
that
name
so
famous
for
his
controversial
works.
These
jugs
were
imported
largely
from
the
Low
Countries,
where
the
Cardinal's
name
was
a
reproach.
These
greybeards
are
of
very
common
occurrence,
being
frequently
found
in
excavating
on
the
sites
of
old
houses.
Two
centuries
after
the
greybeard,
came
the
brown
Staffordshire
Toby
Philpot,
an
enormously
stout
old
gentleman,
whose
arms
and
hands
encircle
his
enormous
paunch,
and
his
three-cornered
hat
forms
a
most
convenient
lip,
whence
the
ale
can
be
poured.
It
owes
its
origin
to
a
once
very
popular
drinking
song,
entitled
"
The
Brown
Jug/'
which
is
an
imitation
from
the
Latin
of
Hieronymus
Amaltheus^
by
Francis
Fawkes,
M.A.,
published
in
1
761,
which
is
the
date
of the
accompanying
illustration.
"Dear
Tom,
this
brown
jug,
which
now
foams
with
mild
ale^
Out
of
which
I
now
drink
to
sv/eet
Nan
of
the
Yale,