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Ale ale-vated into the ale-titude or, a learned oration before a civill assembly of ale-drinkers, between Paddington and Hogsdon, the 30. of February last, anno millimo quillimo trillimo. By John Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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Wing T425; Thomason E1251_4; ESTC R209179
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ALE ALE-VATED INTO THE ALE-TITUDE OR A Learned Oration before a Civill Assembly of ALE-Drinkers Between PADDINGTON and HOGSDON The 30. of February last Anno Millimo Quillimo Trillimo By JOHN TAYLOR LONDON Printed in the yeare 1651. A LEARNED LECTVRE IN PRAISE OF ALE. ALE Beloved Brethren I am come this day to make an Oration in a Tub having dranke all the ALE. the Barrell is turned into a Tub and the Tub transformed into a suitable Pulpit and my hope is I shall please you better then with a tale of a Tub my Theame or Text is but 3. Letters ALE which though they are short and briefe in the pronunciation yet they are Copious and ample both in Mysticall and Intrinsicall Expositions and Historicall Relations The Letter A. is the Captaine the Leader the Conductor the Duke Ram and Generall of the Letters Words and Syllables of all the Speeches Tongues and Languages that have been are or will be amongst all Nations and People in the World And therefore the Letter A. is in the Originall tongue or Hebrew called or knowne by the name of ALEph the first Syllable being ALE and as an addition of Honour to A and ALE all the following Letters are called ALEphabet and in Greek the first Letter is ALpha For further proofe of the Antiquity and high estimation of Ale it is Recorded in famous Histories that many Countreys Kingdomes Nations and Persons have had their derivations and names from A and Ale for this Land this very England was at the first called Albion also Albion was the name of a Giant one of the sons of the Sea-god Neptune and the Countrey of Albania in Greece otherwise called Epirus whereof the most valiant and famous terrour to the Turks Scanderbeâ— or George Castriot was King had their Originall Epithites from Ale the Mahometans with their abusing of Ale in the right use and brewing of it were madly inspired with Enthusiastick Rhaptures that our of the Grounds and Dregs of Ale they brewed their Alcaron by the ayd of Alecto one of the 3 Infernall Furies The first part of any name that begins with AL it doth import that the party or place have been or may be great and fortunate For was not ALExander for his great Conquests called the Great and it is to be supposed that if he had dranke no worse drink then Ale he had not been poysoned in Babylon There was also ALExander Severns a Grave Phylosopher a good and mighty Romane Emperour and in memory of ALExander there are many famous Cities named ALExandria one in Aegypt which the great ALExander caused to be begun and finished in 18 dayes although it was 6 miles within the Walls about Alaricus a Potent and conquering King of the Gothes in the yeare 408. sack'd the City of Rome and burnt it to the ground and Alcibiades a valiant Noble man of Athens of the Race and linage of Great Ajax Telamon atcheived many great exploits with successe and victory to the Honour and profit of the Athenians yet for some small faults they ingratefully banished him and in Frigia his head was stook off Two Grecian Emperours of Constantinople their names were ALExius and Cassandra the Sister of the Worthy Hoctor and Daughter to King Priam was called ALExandra because that by the Vertue of Ale she was inspired with the gift of Prophecying of severall sorts of truths but her evill Fate and the Trojans ill luck was that she never was believed though she alwayes Prophecyed truly Also there were divers Saxon Kings named Ala and Aladine was a common name to the Sarazen Kings and Princes Albumazer a learned Arabian Magitian was by his owne Report much forwarded in his skill and knowledge of Astrology by the operation of Ale of his owne Brewing the Receipt whereof he had from Alphonsus a King of Naples and Sicilia besides Ale doth infuse such vigour and valour into men of the sword that as the History of Barbary or Mauritania Relates ten Tuns of Ale was sent from a Consull of ALEppo to Sebastian King of Portugall at the Battle of Alcasor which Ale made them fight so couragiously that 3 Kings were slaine that day in the field namely Sebastian of Portug ALE Mulley ALEt King of Fesse and one more which I omit because I have forgot his name but I remember our brave English Stukeley was killed then and there and he was partly a King for the Pope had given him the Kingdome of Ireland and the troath is that Stukeley wanted but two small trifles of the full inheritance of it which was only possession and Coronation Bacchus who is likewise named Liber which is frank free merry and at liberty hee was also called Liber Pater which is a free liberall Father hee was the first inventer and Brewer of Ale for which hee is named Alysius by many Grave and Learned Writers as in Bishop Coopers Dictionary and others and it is unquestionable that Bacchus was honoured as a God amongst the Ancient Heathen for his admirable Invention for Potable drinkes of which ALE was then in his time to this time and shall bee in after times the chiefest ALE is of that Venerable and Reverend esteeme that the most Worthy Wisest and Wealthiest Senators are called Aldermen for there is Sage ALE and to bee Sage is to bee Grave and Wise and by drinking Sage ALE the Wise men of Greece were called the seven Sages From this ALE beloved all beloved ALE there are many Vertues have had their Originall Charity is a Vertue and though in these times shee is almost dead with cold shee hath taken against her will yet as in Reference from or ALusion to ALE ALmes are the fruits of Charity and therefore all great Kings and Princes doe maintaine for the distribution of their ALmes some Grave Reverend Person who hath the Office and Title of the Kings or Queenes ALmoner Moreover ALE taken to the purpose will ALEvate and lift up the spirits with ALacrity ALias Mirth ALias Courage ALias Exhilleration and Jocundity The foundation and invention of the mysticall Art of ALcumy was from the force and fume of ALE Can it bee imagined that so many Grave and Learned men have laboured in vaine so many Yeares and Ages with such excessive and infinite charge but that they have found or know where to have the Rich Rare Invisible Philosophers or ALEosophers Stone some of them with ALaborate paines and some pretty cost have attained so much skill and knowledge that they have turned Land into Silver and all into smoake and fume and with as much Iron and Brasse as would furnish a house they have made a piece of Gold as big as a lowse But to returne to my Text ALE a mad wag in a merry Song doth affirme that ALE is not onely a Moover Exciter and Instigator to Arts and Sciences but also that ALE of it selfe and in it selfe is an Alcumist as for example It will turns your gold to silver wan
spoken in the City of Jerusalem the greatest and most famous Metropolis of the world at that time It is to be more then conjectured that there was not then in that great City or scarce any where to be found one crafty Wine Merchant one juggling Cooper or one sophisticating Vintener that Wine was the pure and comfortable Juice of the Grape without any mingle mangle blending balderdashing commixtion that Wine would glad the heart of man indeed and he that will fetch me a quart of that shall have twelve pence and thanks for his paine But most of our Wines now a dayes doe not glad but mad the heart of man as by dayly and lamentable experience we perceive by the frequent quarrelling sighting wounding killing and murdering which happens by the excessive abuse of abused fuming Wines and intexicated braines of all which ALE most vertuous ALE may plead not Guilty We have many good Townes in England whose names are derived from ALE as ALEsbury so called because of the strong ALE which was brewed there Nut brown ALE as browne as a berry and there the first Cawdles and Aleberies were invented for the comfort and restoratives of old or sick folks or women that lay in The ancientest Records of the famous Towne of Abington in Barkeshire doe testifie that the old name of it was ALEBENDONA and according to the old appellation it is to this day seldome or never unfurnished with most Ptable Potent high and mighty ALE. Sanbich Darby Dover Canterbury Northdowne but especially Windsor are Townes and places famous for brewing of this excellent Liquor There are Antiquaries that doe more then suppose that Hercules had never atchieved or accomplished his twelve labors but by the Vertue and Vigour of ALE whereby hee vanquished Giants Monsters Dragons for which Conquests and Victories for the perpetuall honour of ALE he was called ALcides Also there are and have beene many good Knights and Gentlemen with others of great worth and honour in England whose names began with ALE as Sir ALEn Percy Sir ALEn Apsley the Worshipfull Knights and Gentry of the Families of the ALeffs and ALEworths or the ALthams ALEsops ALEas c. with the most famous Master Edward ALEn our ever to be remembred Roscius and renowned Stage Actor he Acted an excellent part and piece of Charity in his life time in founding and furnishing a neat and comely Colledge at Dulledge in Surrey three miles from London for the perpetuall reliefe of poore aged people and a Free Schoole for the education of youth hee got not his estate by Totos dies potare by sitting whole dayes drinking he had wisedome and discretion to know the right use and avoid the wrong abuse of ALE. For ALE is an enemy to idlenesse it will worke and bee working in the braine as well as in the Barrell if it be abused by any man it will trip up his heeles and give him either a faire or a fowle fall if hee bee the strongest stowtest and skilfullest Wrastler either in Cornwall or Christendome But if ALE bee moderately mildly and friendly dealt withall it will appease qualifie mitigate and quench all striffe and contention it will lay anger asleepe and give a furious man or woman a gentle Nap and therefore it was rightly called Nappy ALE by our Learned and Reverend Forefathers Besides it is very medicinable as the best Physitians doe affirme for Beere is seldome used or applyed to any inward or outward maladies except sometimes it bee warmed with a little Butter to wash the galled feete or toes of a weary Traveller but you shall never know or heare of a usuall drinker of ALE to bee troubled with the Hippocondra with Hippocondragacall obstructions or convulsions nor are they vexed as others are with severall paines of sundry sorts of Gowts such as are the Gonâ—gra Pâ—dogra Chirogra and the lame Hip-halting Sciatica or with the intollerable griefe of the Stone in the Reines Kidneys or Bladder for an experimentall proofe whereof a Reverend Grave Judge dyed lately who all his life time was a hater of ALE hee being perpetually or continually vexed with the tormenting pain of the Stone and when hee was deceased his body was opened where in his Bladder was found a Stone as bigge as a Turkies Egge which the skillfull Physitians and Chyrurgians did put into a Basen of ALE and in a few houres the ALE did dissolve the sayd Stone to small Gravell Take this into your considerations all you ignorant haters of ALE. For are not your eyes opened your mindes illuminated your understandings enlightned and all your spirits illustrated with gratefull Capacities As to remember the benefit of health which ALE hath universally beene the monumentall meanes to produce and propagate to our Nation within this three or foure yeares Note but the great ALteration in the weekly Bills of mortallity and you will finde by true observation that French Wines being prohibited and Beere as the Proverbe saith is downe the winde ALE being in such deserved request that for one flaggon of Beere that is dranke foure pots of ALE are acceptably taken whereby Physitians have not beene so much imployed or Church-yards so fat as formerly they were wont to bee when ALE was dispised flighted and neglected therefore I say let as many as doe love the preservation of their â—â—ves and healths let them drinke ALE and also let ALE be their drinke Moreover ALE is melodious humonically musiquALE for it puts men into Quavers Semiquavers Minoms Troubles Treables I should say Tenors Counter-Tenors Beâ—â—â— and more then sol fa ut c. for ELA is an Anagram of ALE and ELA is the ALdeboron or highest Note of Musick either in winde Instruments strung Instruments or Voyces and truely it would doe a deafe body much good to heare the strange Tones Tunes and Voyces which do ascend and mount above ELA three Notes and a halfe from the merry Harmonious Songs and Catches of men in their ALE for ALE will make a man sing Selengers Round to the tune of Greene sleeves or Trenchmore to the tune of Laugh and lye down Also ALE will make a man a Linguisht it will teach him the Greeke Tongue in two hours if hee ply his ALE ALphabet diligently Me vat a whee and me pat a whee shaugh at orum probibi tibi c. in Arabick Cornutian Diocrisian Paracelsian and Catharackt Thus beloved brethren I have related unto you in part the Antiquity the Honour the Vertues and severall uses of ALE which uses will bee profitable to you and to all such as will make good use of ALE. The Application of all that I have sayd doth consist onely in your selves the Lesson is short as my Text was it is no more then this make constant Application of ALE to your selves and apply your selves constantly to ALE. And so my loving Brothers I hold it no offence to shut up all with a friendly conclusion that before wee part company wee may for