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A13442 Drinke and vvelcome: or The famous historie of the most part of drinks, in use now in the kingdomes of Great Brittaine and Ireland with an especiall declaration of the potency, vertue, and operation of our English ale. With a description of all sorts of waters, from the ocean sea, to the teares of a woman. As also, the causes of all sorts of weather, faire or foule ... Compiled first in the high Dutch tongue, by the painefull and industrious Huldricke Van Speagle, a grammaticall brewer of Lubeck, and now most learnedly enlarged, amplified, and translated into English prose and verse. By Iohn Taylor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1637 (1637) STC 23749; ESTC S118210 16,554 28

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short-winded or that his voice or speech failes him let him drinke Sack as it may be taken it shall make him capable to vent words and speake beyond measure Doth any man for the clearing of his stomacke desire a vomit let him take a quantity of Sack and by the operation of the same it shall be effected So that we may justly say that Sack is a second nature to man and that the Physicians well knew when they confinde it to the Apothecaies shops which was not till neere the end of King Henry the eights Raigne about the yeare 1543 and in King Edward the sixts first and second yeare 1548. till which time none but the Apothecaries had the honour to fell Sack and that was onely for medicine and for sicke folkes but though now it be more dispersed into Great mens houses and Vintners cellars yet it hath obtained no absolute freedome to this day for in the mansions or dwellings of many that keepe the fairest houses the Mannagement and tuition of Sack is to some lewd ill natur'd or nurtur'd yeoman of the Winecellar whereby it is too often adulterated and also brought to such an astringencie brought to such points of mortification that it is impossible it should ever be worthy to gaine the approbation of a Wine-vinegar man and it were heartily to be wish'd that this enormious abuse were punished by the vertue of a Dog-whip A word or two for example and I shall conclude Lucius Piso that great Generall that conquered Thrace was wonderfully given to the drinking of Sack insomuch that he was oftentimes carried from the Senate house and it was so farre from being an impeachment to his honour that neverthelesse Augustus Caesar committed to him the charge care and trust of the most secret affaires of State and never had any cause to be discontented with him the like we read of Tiberius and Cassus and as faithfully was the plot and purpose to kill Caesar in the Senate committed unto Cimber who dranke nothing but Sack as unto Cassius who dranke nothing but Water and certaine I am that the Persians after their drinking of Sack were wont to consult of their chiefest and most serious state-businesses and Cyrus that so farre and famous a renowned King among his other high praises and commendations meaning to preferre himselfe before his brother Artaxerxes and get the start of him alleageth the cause of his being victorious over him to bee chiefly because he could drinke more Sack than he I commend not intemperance in all these allegations the Reader may please to Remember my former test for moderation and Sack being so taken will be to the moderate taker a comfort against cares and crosses and so with Iuvenals words in his foureteenth satire I shut up all Thou shalt be from disease and weaknesse free From mone from care long time of life to thee Shall by more friendly fate afforded by Drinke Sack therefore if you 'l be rul'd by me Here followeth a laborious and effectuall discourse in praise of the Element of all Waters fresh and salt with their opperation with a touch of the causes of all sorts of weather faire and foule I That of Earth was made yet no earth have No not so much as may afford a grave For when that death my lives thred shall untwine I have no buriall in a ground that 's mine Of all the Elements the Earth is worst Because for Adams sinne it was accurst Therefore no parcell of it will I buy But on the VVater for reliefe relie When as mans crying crimes in volleyes flew To Heaven and Heavens high vengeance downeward drew Then Water all the World did overrunne And plagu'd th' abuses that on Earth were done From showres of Water rain'd from Skies to Earth Spring Sommer Harvest Winter have their birth For VVater is the Milke of Heaven whereby All things are nurs'd increase and multiply The old●st and most grave Astronomers The learned'st and most sage Philosophers Doe hold that in the highest Altitude A spheare of Water is in Amplitude Envelloping all other Orbs and Spheres With all the Planets swift and slow careares Even as the Sea the Earth doth compasse round The Water so the Firmament doth bound Should I of Water write but what it is I should be drowned in my Theames Abysse And therefore I 'le but dabble wade and wash And here and there both give and take a dash In blest Records it truely is approv'd That Gods blest Spirit upon the Waters mov'd Then All things were involved in the Waters All earthly Airie and all firie matters Vntill th' Almighty whose workes all are wonders With saying Let there be the Chaos sunders Of a confus'd lump voyd of forme and fashion He spake and gave the world its faire creation And as at first the Waters compast all The Chaos or worlds universall Ball. So still of all the workes of God most glorious The water was is and will be victorious It doth surmount the Ayre the fire it quenches With Inundations it the Earth bedrenches The Fire may burne a house perhaps a Towne But water can a Province spoyle and drowne And Ayre may be corrupted and from thence A Kingdome may be plagu'd with pestilence Where many die old young some great some small But water flouds plaies sweep-stake with them all Earth may be barren and not yeeld her store Yet may she feed the rich and starve the poore But Earth in triumph over all ner'e rid As in the Diluge once the Waters did Warre may make noyse with Gunnes and ratling Drums But Water where it comes it overcomes Thus Earth nor Ayre nor Fire nor rumbling Warre Nor plague or pestilence nor famine are Of powre to winne where Water but commands As witnesse may the watry Northerlands Concerning Merchandise and transportation Commerce and traffique and negotiation To Make each Countrie have by Navigation The Goods and Riches of each others Nation Commodities in free community Embassages for warre or unity These blessings by the Sea or some fresh River Are given to us by the All-giving Giver And in the vasty and unmeasur'd roome Of Neptunes Regiment or Thetis wombe Are almost shapes and formes of all the things Which in the Earth or Ayre or dies or springs Ther'e Fishes like to Sunne or Moone and Starres Fowles of the Ayre and weapons for the Warres Beasts of the Field and Plants and Flowers there And Fishes made like Men and Women are All instruments for any Art or Trade In living formes of Fishes there are made This is approv'd if any man will seeke In the first day of Bart●● his first weeke Heaven hath ordain'd the warry Element To be a Seale and sacred Sacrament Which doth in Baptisme us regenerate And man againe with God doth renovate And as it in the Laver mysticall Doth cleanse us from our sinne originall So for our corp'rall uses 't is most meete To wash our cloathes and keepe us cleane and sweet Wer 't