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DRINKS,
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And
in
Beaumont
and
Fletcher's
Little
Thief,
or
the
Night-
Walker
,
Jack
Wildbrain
speaks
with
contempt
of
"
One
that
knows
not
neck-beef
from
a
pheasant,
Nor
cannot
relish
braggat
from
ambrosia."
The
opponents
of
alcoholic
drinks
are
often
met
by
the
objection
that
some
of
the
drinks
recommended
by
themselves
are
alcoholic,
as
indeed
they
often
are.
Even
water
appears
to
possess,
in
some
cases,
an
in-
toxicating
property.
Pliny
i^Nat,
Hist.,
ii.
cvi.)
speaks
of
a
Lyncestis
aqua}
of
a
certain
acidity,
which
makes
men
drunken.
The
celebrated
Ballston
waters
in
the
State
of
New
York,
are
said
to
be
affected
with
qualities
"
highly
exhilarating,"
sometimes
producing
vertigo,
which
has
been
followed
by
drowsiness
;
in
other
words,
they
who
drink
them
exhibit
the
usual
symptoms
of
drunkenness.
Timothy
Dwight,
in
his
Travels
in
New
England
and
New
Yo7'k,
says
that
these
waters
are
considered
by
the
farmers
of
the
neighbourhood
as
an
excellent
beverage,
and
are
sent
for
from
a
considerable
distance
for
drink
to
labourers
during
haymaking
and
harvest-
ing,
a
time
well
known
to
be
full
of
desire
on
the
part
of
country
people
employed
in
these
agricultural
pur-
suits,
for
alcoholic
refreshment.
"
They
supersede,"
says
Dwight,
*'
in
a
great
measure
the
use
of
any
ardent
spirits.
But
since
the
result
of
drinking
these
waters
seems
precisely
the
same,
as
far
as
regards
^
Quem
quicunque
parum
moderate
gutture
traxit,
Haud
aliter
turbat
quam
si
mera
vina
bibisset.
—
Ovid,
Meiam.y
xv.
329.