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A95518 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. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1651 (1651) Wing T425; Thomason E1251_4; ESTC R209179 13,105 29

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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 Gli●ne in that Gli●ne or Vally then inhabited one Mathew who was called Mathew of the Gli●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