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Such is the intoxicating property of this
liquor, that, none but bard drinkers will
venture to regale themselves with it a second
time.
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THE OXFORD GRACE CUP.
The grace cup serv'd, the cloth away,
Jove thought it time
to
shew his play.
Prior.
The ancient Grace Cup was a vessel pro–
portioned to the number of the company
assembled, which went round the table, the
guests drinking out of the same cup one
after another. Virgil describes something
like it, when, speaking of the entertainment
Queen Dido gave to .lEneas, he say11,
Postquam prima quies epulis, memeque remotm ;
Crateras magnoa statuunt, et vina coronant.
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Hie regina gravem gemmia auroque poposcit
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