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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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And your silver into Brasse A Taylor it will make a man And a man it will make an Asse I must acknowledge that there are many and divers sorts of drinks of great Antiquity and use in this Island as Syder Perry Matheglin Mead Braggot Pomperkin c. These are all Native and naturall amongst us of whom I will say little because their use is not of that Amplitude or universallity as ALE is First Syder is made of Apples and held to bee most Ancient and that CAINE having learned of his Mother EVE did practise it when hee was a Vagabond and got a great estate by it My Country Glocester shire is most plentifully stored with it when it is new it is Laxative and being old it must bee sugred and a skillfull Vintner can make it passe for White Wine or Clarret with a dash of red Perry the Ancient Writers cannot agree from whence it had its originall some will derive it from Persepolis in Persia others from Perue in America one fetches the Pedigree from Periander one of the Grecian Sages but my opinion is that it was invented by one Parry a Welshman a cousin German to Owen Tuedor of the Linage of the Emperour Pertinax and kinsman to Cadwallador Magnus the Epilogicall King of the Cambria Brittaines howsoever Worcester shire is now the Fountaine and Magazine of Perry it is delicious in the pallate and in some places and constitutions it is very operative to qualifie drought and quench thirst Matheglin as it is related in the History of Monmouth was first made in a fruitful Vally at the foot of Penmenmaure and in the Brittish Greeke a Vally is called a Gliâ—ne in that Gliâ—ne or Vally then inhabited one Mathew who was called Mathew of the Gliâ—ne this Mathew had many swarmes of Bees and brethren you know Bees make Hony This Hony of the Glinne with the industry of this Mathew was first invented and it still doth beare the Authours name Mathoglin it is purgative by reason of its melioration it eases obstructions it expells tremor cordis it provokes dormosity or sleepe it is for the most part confined to the principallity or 13. Cantons and in those famous Territories it is equivalent with Muskadell Mead came from the Meades and Persiant and though inferiour to Matheglin yet it is much like it in taste and operation Braggot is not of any Ancient standing it is an inflaming kinde of tap-lash made of sundry Spices being hot and dry in the third degree it is good against cold and moist in the second the Originall and Authour of it is unknowne Pomperkin some derive it from Pomerania a Dukedome in high Almaine others from Pompey the Great but it is not probable that so great a Spirit was the Inventer of so smal and inconsiderable a drinke it is made of Apples which are squeezed and pressed with water put amongst it is a poore conditioned confection and t is thought that Perkin Warbeck was the Authour of it in his Rebellion against K. Hon. the 7. Beere is a Dutch Boorish Liquor a thing not knowne in England till of late dayes an Alien to our Nation till such time as Hops and Heresies came amongst us it is a sawcy intruder into this Land and it s sold by usurpation for the houses that doe sell Beere onely are nicknamed Ale houses marke beloved an Ale-house is never called a Beere-house but a Beere-house would have but small custome if it did not falsly carry the name of an Ale-house also it is common to say a Stand of Ale it is not onely a Stand but it will make a man understand or stand under but Beere is often called a Hogshead which all rationall men doe know is but a swinish expression But to returne to my Text ALE from whence I have digressed and too much made use of your patience It is past mans understanding to conceive the admirable flowing and overflowing Innundation of ALoquence that Rhetorickally runs from the trowling tongue of a constant ALE-drinker he will speake ALEgories so mystically sententious that the wisest Bachan ALian Wine-bibber can never comprehend or understand literally ALE will make a man impartiall in his knowledge for he that is quick and nimble in his ALE will not know his ALiance from ALiens for if you note the grave actions of a man in his ALE how he will winke and nod upon you with grave and discreet postures marke him when he holds up his finger and turnes up his ALbum Oculi the white of the Eye then is his judgement Ales quick or swift and his tongue is Ala a birds wing and his whole selfe is Alius nemo or no man such and then may he be justly esteemed to be no man of this world but that he is mounted and ALEvated to an ALtitude higher then the ALpes then will he talke of Religion beyond beliefe interpret Scripture beyond all sense and shew you points of the Law above all the reason that can be ALEged Matheo ALEman by the vertue and inspiration of the first Sylable of his sirname ALE did write that well composed Booke and most excellent fancy of Guzman de ALfarach or The Spanish Rogue I should be endlesse and speake much to no end if I should repeat all the good and vertuous words which doe begin with ALE as ALEgiance was ALowed for a Vertue in the dayes of Yore and it is so yet in France Spaine and in other places for which causes of tranquility and plenty which former times afforded our Reverend and Wise Ancestors gave them the name of ALcion dayes as faire cleare and merry for the Bird called Alcion or Halcion or Kings Fisher doth never shew her selfe or is seldome seene in foule tempestious dayes or stormy weather And chearfull times of the Heavenly Sunshine of Peace and calmnesse were a long time the undeserved blessings which our English Edon enjoyed then one friend or one neighbour or more did esteem a Pot of ALE for a better Companion in Company then of ten Pot Companions that delight to be drunk and do or study mischiefe Besides all this beloved the word ALEbria is in our translation a nourishing and the word ALiment is nourishment or preserving and what is more approved for the nourishing and preserving of sick or aged People then ALE It was wisely and truely said that Wine makes the heart of man glad but not to be prophane if it be considered by whom and when and where those words were spoken it is plaine and evident that though the words are true and unalterable yet the person that spake them is gone and gathered to his Fathers in rest and happinesse the time when is much altred and the place where most barbarously changed first they were spoken by a King and a Prophet who could speake nothing but truth secondly those words were uttered in a time when plain honest dealing was used between man and man without deceit or equivocation and thirdly they were
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