My noble Captaine, I'le have care of my owne and drinke your health with it.
Thomas, pray entertaine this footman in the butterie; let him drinke and refresh himselfe, and set the cold chine of Beefe before him: he has ranne hard.
And now you are chose a Captaine for your Countrey You must give good example to your Soldiers And cherish nature after exercise: You must drinke sack, sack is a fortifier.
Is beveredge for a Generall: I doe use to drinke it when I am engagd against a squadron or a whole company.
Come, come; putt of your Jelousy, Drinke downe the remembrance.
If with Mimique Gestures you'le keep you from sadnes, Then drinke lusty Clarett twill put you in Madnes; And then to settle you no hopes in Beer But wholesome Potts of Scotch ale though its deere.
Well, if our service be done, & there be any other liquor to be gott, wele drinke no salt water as long as this lasts.
I see wel that you desire my health, and for that purpose would haue me drinke those liquors, which superficiallay appeare to bee sweete, which afterwardes may make my lyfe a hundred tymes more faint and feeble than now it is.
But now is tyme that thou drinke and ataste some softe and delitable thinges; so that, whan they ben entred with-in thee, it mowe maken wey to strengere drinkes of medicynes.
The cup is full, and so large, that I boldly drinke a health vnto all commers.
Tapsters this quarter shall be in greater credite than Coblers, and many shall drinke more then they can yearne.
This drinke hath many good physical properties therein; for it strengthened a week stomacke, helpeth digestion, and the tumors and obstructions of the liver and spleene, being drunke fasting for some time together.
Some of them will also drinke Bersh or Opium, which maketh them forget themselves, and talk idely of Castles in the Ayre, as though they saw Visions, and heard Revelations.
The same yeare died Ceolwulf then king of Northumberland, vnto whome Beda did dedicate his booke of [Sidenote: Moonks licenced to drinke wine.
Sometimes (seeming to fetch somewhat) hee would goe to the Maiden and give her pieces of meate, which he privily tooke away, and would drinkeunto her, which she willingly tooke in good part.
For every man would say: Behold the Gentleman that hath an Asse, that will eate and drinke with him, that will dance, and understand what is said to him, will shew his fantasie by signes.
There was behind the Plane tree a pleasant running water as cleere as Crystal, and I sayd unto him, Come hither Socrates to this water and drinke thy fill.
Marry (quoth I) a great lampe with oyle, pots of wine, and water to delay the same, and some other drinke and dainty dish that was left at supper.
XX ‘And at the waking of your first sleepe You shall have a hott drinke made, And at the waking of your next sleepe Your sorrowes will have a slake.
And if the sicknesse be so old that it will not heale in eighteene dayes, begin againe, and drinkeother nine Snailes, and he shall be whole.
You may make Partridges, Duckes, and other birds drunke, so that you may take them with your hand: if you set blacke wine for them to drinke in those places whereunto they resort.
Take of this powder and drinke it with Sacke, so much of it as will lye on a three-pence.
Then taste they thereof, and being indifferently sharpe they drinke it; for it biteth a mans tongue like the wine of raspes when it is drunke.
All the day, they and their priestes do eate and drinke so much till they can no more.
The which oth is executed in this order: they doo giue him to drinke three times of a certaine beuerage which they doo vse, and that is the confirming of their oth.
And every drinke hath his vessell prepared of silver, at the foot of the tree, to receive it.
And they do paint him in the fore castle, for that he shall do no harme vnto the shipps: that being done, they do eate and drinke till they can no more.
For their bread they haue Oaten Cakes, and their drinkeis Ewes milke, and in some partes Ale.
They sow corne, and make beere and ale, which is a kinde ofdrinke that North people do vse as we do wine.
High-German) was wont to keep bottells of good Rhenish-wine in his studie, and when he had spent his spirits he would drinke a good rummer of it.
Tho when the gentry mett, it was not at a poor blind sordid alehouse, to drinke up a barrell of drinke and lie drunke there two or three dayes together; fall together by the eares.
Then give me a glasse of sack to[489]drinke his sacred majestie's health.
We are come todrinke not less then 1000 of ale before we goe.
The Justice and's myrmidons are to drinke up 1000 of ale at mother Mackerell's.
He was wont to say that he would not drinke high or freely with any man with whom he would not intrust his life.
He kept bottles of wine at his lodgeing, and many times he would drinke liberally by himselfe to refresh his spirits, and exalt his muse.
Hee then commaunded to bee brought thither cates to eat, and drink, and gaue it them with his owne hands, as well the one as the other; hee himselfe did eate and drinke with them, which is the greatest fauour that can be shewed amongst them.
The cup they drinke in is Medusa's scull, Which mixt with gall and blood they quaffe brim-full.
Here's a theame will drinke th' expence, 35 Of all thy watry eloquence.
My father sayes he will noe meate, Nor his drinke shall doe him noe good, till he have slaine the Child of Ell And have seene his harts blood.
When meate and drinke is great plentye Then lords and ladyes still wil be And sitt and solace lythe Then itt is time for mee to speake Of keene knights and kempes great Such carping for to kythe.
The fruits of ale are unto drunkards such, To make 'em sweare and lye that drinke too much.
Which apples, also, if they happen to falle into any pitte of water, the strength of the poyson killeth them that drinke thereof.
The Sadlers will dine at the Saddle, The Painters will to the Greene Dragon, The Dutchmen will go to the Froe,[22] Where each man will drinke his Flagon.
Firste / the example of Christ is set against vs / which dyd eate and drinke familiarlye with scribes / pharisees / publicanes / and synners.
And when, and as often as they did drinke of the mylke: This Examynate saith they went into the sayd earthen pot, and lay in the wooll.
I may chance to make him drinke in pipe wine, 35 First come gentlemen.
Now that’s meate and drinke to me, He run yon to a beare, and take her by the mussell, 85 You neuer saw the like.
Ile to my honest knight sir Iohn Falstaffe, And drinke Canary with him.
For whereas all the Other are thicke and muddie: he runneth exceeding cleere, more gentle than the rest, and most pleasant to drinke of.
For they that ondertake the matter, wound themselves, and letting their blood drop out into a vessel, wher they have stird it together they drinke of it thinking that to be a most assured pledge of the promise to be performed.
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