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CUPS
AND
THEIR
CUSTOMS.
^^
sherris
sack
^^
cost
him
his
character,
and
will
therefore
deny
him
admission
to
our
gallery
of
men
who
have
drunk
wisely
and
warily,
and
therefore
well.
While
speaking
of
these
times,
we
must
not
forget
to
mention
^^the
cup
that
cheers,
but
not
inebriates
;^^
for
it
was
from
the
introduction
of
tea-
and
coflFee-houses
that
clubs
sprang
into
existence
by
a
process
unneces-
sary
here
to
dilate
on,
but
of
which
an
excellent
account
may
be
found
in
Philip
and
Grace
Wharton^s
^
Wits
and
Beaux
of
Society/
The
first
cofice-house
estab-
lished
was
the
^
Grecian,^
kept
by
one
Constantine,
a
Greek,
who
advertised
that
^^the
pure
berry
of
the
cofi'ee
was
to
be
had
of
him
as
good
as
could
be
any-
*
where
found,^^
and
shortly
afterwards
succeeded
in
securing
a
flourishing
trade
by
selling
an
infusion
of
the
said
berry
in
small
cups.
After
him
came
Mr,
Gar-
raway,
who
set
forth
that
'^
tea
was
to
be
had
of
him
in
leaf
and
in
drink
;^^
and
thus
took
its
rise
Garraw&y^s
well-known
cofice-house,
so
celebrated
for
the
sayings
and
doings
of
Dr.
Johnson,
one
of
which,
being
some-
what
to
the
point,
we
may,
in
passing,
notice.
"I
admit,^^
said
he,
^^
that
there
are
sluggish
men
who
are
improved
by
drinking,
as
there
are
fruits
which
are
not
good
till
they
are
rotten
;
there
are
such
men,
but
they
are
medlars.^^
In
the
eighteenth
century
the
principal
cups
that
we
find
noted
were
those
compounded
of
Beer,
the
names
of
which
are
occasionally
suggestive
of
too
great
a
familiarity
on
the
part
of
their
worshippers,
—
to
wit
Humptie-dumptie,
Clamber-clown,
Stiffle,
Blind
Pin-