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<P><HI>ALE</HI> ALE-VATED INTO THE ALE-TITUDE: OR, A Learned Oration before a Civill A&s;&s;embly of ALE-Drinkers, Between <HI>PADDINGTON</HI> and <HI>HOGSDON,</HI> The 30. of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, <HI>Anno Milli|mo Quillimo Trillimo.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>JOHN TAYLOR.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the yeare, 1651.</P>
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<HEAD>A <HI>LEARNED LECT&V;RE,</HI> IN PRAISE OF ALE.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_ALE</HI> 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 &s;uitable Pulpit: and my hope is, I &s;hall plea&s;e you better then with a tale of a Tub: my Theame or Text is but 3. Let|ters, <HI>ALE,</HI> which though they are &s;hort and briefe in the pronunciation, yet they are Copious and ample, both in My&s;ticall, and Intrin&s;icall Expo&s;itions, and Hi&s;toricall Relations.</P>
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<P>The Letter <HI>A.</HI> 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 among&s;t all Nations and People in the World.</P>
<P>And therefore the Letter <HI>A.</HI> is, in the Originall tongue (or Hebrew) called or knowne by the name of <HI>ALEph,</HI> the fir&s;t Syllable being <HI>ALE,</HI> and as an addition of Honour to <HI>A,</HI> and <HI>ALE,</HI> all the following Letters are called <HI>ALEphabet;</HI> and in Greek the fir&s;t Letter is <HI>ALpha.</HI></P>
<P>For further proofe of the Antiquity and high e&s;timation of <HI>Ale,</HI> it is Recorded in famous Hi&s;tories, that many Coun|treys. Kingdomes, Nations, and Per&s;ons have had their deri|vations, and names from <HI>A</HI> and <HI>Ale;</HI> for this Land, this very England, was at the fir&s;t called <HI>Albion:</HI> al&s;o <HI>Albion</HI> was the name of a Giant, one of the &s;ons of the Sea-god <HI>Neptune,</HI> and the Countrey of <HI>Albania</HI> in <HI>Greece</HI> (other|wi&s;e called <HI>Epirus,</HI> whereof the mo&s;t valiant and famous terrour to the Turks, <HI>Scanderbe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> (or <HI>George Ca&s;triot</HI> was King) had their Originall Epithites from <HI>Ale:</HI> the Maho|metans (with their abu&s;ing of <HI>Ale</HI> in the right u&s;e and bre|wing of it) were madly in&s;pired with Enthu&s;ia&s;tick Rhap|tures, that our of the Grounds and Dregs of <HI>Ale</HI> they brew|ed their <HI>Alcaron,</HI> by the ayd of <HI>Alecto</HI> one of the 3 Infer|nall Furies.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t part of any name that begins with <HI>AL,</HI> it doth import that the party or place have been, or may be great and fortunate.</P>
<P>For was not <HI>ALExander</HI> for his great Conque&s;ts called the Great? and it is to be &s;uppo&s;ed, that if he had dranke no wor&s;e drink then <HI>Ale,</HI> he had not been poy&s;oned in <HI>Babylon.</HI>
<PB N="7" REF="3">There was al&s;o <HI>ALExander Severns,</HI> a Grave Phylo&s;opher, a good and mighty Romane Emperour; and in memory of <HI>ALExander,</HI> there are many famous Cities named <HI>ALEx|andria,</HI> one in Aegypt, which the great <HI>ALExander</HI> cau&s;ed to be begun and fini&s;hed in 18 dayes, although it was 6 miles (within the Walls) about.</P>
<P><HI>Alaricus,</HI> a Potent and conquering King of the <HI>Gothes,</HI> in the yeare 408. &s;ack'd the City of Rome, and burnt it to the ground: and <HI>Alcibiades</HI> a valiant Noble man of Athens, of the Race and linage of Great <HI>Ajax Telamon,</HI> atcheived many great exploits with &s;ucce&s;&s;e and victory, to the Honour and profit of the Athenians; yet (for &s;ome &s;mall faults) they ingratefully bani&s;hed him, and in <HI>Frigia</HI> his head was &s;took off.</P>
<P>Two Grecian Emperours of Con&s;tantinople, their names were <HI>ALExius</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> (the Si&s;ter of the Worthy <HI>Hoctor</HI> and Daughter to King <HI>Priam</HI>) was called <HI>ALExan|dra,</HI> becau&s;e that by the Vertue of <HI>Ale</HI> &s;he was in&s;pired with the gift of Prophecying of &s;everall &s;orts of truths; but her evill Fate, and the Trojans ill luck was, that &s;he never was believed, though &s;he alwayes Prophecyed truly. Al&s;o there were divers Saxon Kings named <HI>Ala:</HI> and <HI>Aladine</HI> was a common name to the Sarazen Kings and Princes. <HI>Al|bumazer</HI> a learned Arabian Magitian, was (by his owne Re|port) much forwarded in his skill and knowledge of A&s;trolo|gy by the operation of <HI>Ale</HI> of his owne Brewing, the Re|ceipt whereof he had from <HI>Alphon&s;us</HI> a King of Naples, and Sicilia; be&s;ides, <HI>Ale</HI> doth infu&s;e &s;uch vigour and valour in|to men of the &s;word, that as the Hi&s;tory of <HI>Barbary</HI> (or <HI>Mauritania</HI>) Relates, ten Tuns of <HI>Ale</HI> was &s;ent from a Con&s;ull of <HI>ALEppo</HI> to <HI>Seba&s;tian,</HI> King of <HI>Portugall</HI> at the
<PB N="8" REF="4">Battle of <HI>Alca&s;or,</HI> which <HI>Ale</HI> made them fight &s;o couragiou&s;|ly, that 3 Kings were &s;laine that day in the field, namely, <HI>Se|ba&s;tian</HI> of <HI>Portug ALE, Mulley ALEt,</HI> King of <HI>Fe&s;&s;e,</HI> and one more, which I omit, becau&s;e I have forgot his name; but I remember our brave Engli&s;h <HI>Stukeley</HI> was killed then, and there; and he was partly a King, for the Pope had gi|ven him the Kingdome of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the troath is, that <HI>Stukeley</HI> wanted but two &s;mall trifles of the full inheritance of it, which was only po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion and Coronation.</P>
<P><HI>Bacchus,</HI> who is likewi&s;e named <HI>Liber,</HI> which is frank, free, merry, and at liberty; hee was al&s;o called <HI>Liber Pater,</HI> which is a free liberall Father; hee was the fir&s;t inventer and Brewer of <HI>Ale,</HI> for which hee is named <HI>Aly&s;ius,</HI> by ma|ny Grave and Learned Writers, as in Bi&s;hop <HI>Coopers</HI> Dictio|nary, and others, and it is unque&s;tionable that <HI>Bacchus</HI> was honoured as a God, among&s;t the Ancient Heathen, for his ad|mirable Invention for Potable drinkes; of which ALE was then in his time, to this time, and &s;hall bee in after times, the chiefe&s;t.</P>
<P>ALE is of that Venerable, and Reverend e&s;teeme, that the mo&s;t Worthy, Wi&s;e&s;t, and Wealthie&s;t Senators are called Al|dermen; for there is Sage ALE, and to bee Sage, is to bee Grave and Wi&s;e; and by drinking Sage ALE, the Wi&s;e men of Greece were called the &s;even Sages.</P>
<P>From this ALE beloved, all beloved ALE there are many Vertues have had their Originall; Charity is a Vertue, and though in the&s;e times &s;hee is almo&s;t dead with cold &s;hee hath taken again&s;t her will; yet as in Reference from or ALu&s;ion to ALE, ALmes are the fruits of Charity, and therefore all great Kings and Princes doe maintaine (for the di&s;tribution of their ALmes) &s;ome Grave, Reverend Per&s;on who hath the
<PB N="9" REF="4">Office and Title of the Kings (or Queenes) ALmoner.</P>
<P>Moreover, ALE (taken to the purpo&s;e will ALEvate and lift up the &s;pirits with ALacrity, <HI>ALias</HI> Mirth, <HI>ALias</HI> Courage, <HI>ALias</HI> Exhilleration and Jocundity.</P>
<P>The foundation and invention of the my&s;ticall Art of AL|cumy, was from the force and fume of ALE: Can it bee i|magined that &s;o many Grave and Learned men have laboured in vaine &s;o many Yeares and Ages, with &s;uch exce&s;&s;ive and infinite charge, but that they have found or know where to have the Rich, Rare, Invi&s;ible Philo&s;ophers (or ALEo&s;ophers) Stone; &s;ome of them with ALaborate paines, and &s;ome pretty co&s;t, have attained &s;o much skill and knowledge, that they have turned Land into Silver, and all into &s;moake and <HI>fume,</HI> and with as much Iron and Bra&s;&s;e as would furni&s;h a hou&s;e, they have made a piece of Gold as big as a low&s;e. 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 In&s;tigator to Arts and Sciences, but al&s;o that ALE of it &s;elfe and in it &s;elfe, is an Alcumi&s;t; as for example.</P>
<Q><L>It will turns your gold to &s;ilver wan,</L>
<L>And your &s;ilver into Bra&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>A Taylor it will make a man,</L>
<L>And a man it will make an A&s;&s;e.</L></Q>
<P>I mu&s;t acknowledge that there are many and divers &s;orts of drinks of great Antiquity and u&s;e in this I&s;land, as <HI>Syder, Perry, Matheglin, Mead, Braggot, Pomperkin, &amp;c.</HI> The&s;e are all Native and naturall among&s;t us, of whom I will &s;ay little, becau&s;e their u&s;e is not of that Amplitude or uni|ver&s;allity as ALE is.</P>
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<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Syder</HI> is made of <HI>Apples,</HI> and held to bee mo&s;t An|cient, and that CAINE (having learned of his Mother EVE) did practi&s;e it when hee was a Vagabond, and got a great e&s;tate by it. My Country <HI>(Gloce&s;ter &s;hire)</HI> is mo&s;t plentifully &s;tored with it; when it is new it is Laxative, and being old it mu&s;t bee &s;ugred, and a skillfull Vintner can make it pa&s;&s;e for White Wine, or Clarret, with a da&s;h of red <HI>Perry;</HI> the Ancient Writers cannot agree, from whence it had its origi|nall, &s;ome will derive it from <HI>Per&s;epolis</HI> in <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> others from <HI>Perue</HI> in <HI>America,</HI> one fetches the Pedigree from <HI>Pe|riander,</HI> (one of the <HI>Grecian</HI> Sages) but my opinion is, that it was invented by one <HI>Parry</HI> a Wel&s;hman, a cou&s;in German to <HI>Owen Tuedor,</HI> (of the Linage of the Emperour <HI>Pertinax,</HI> and kin&s;man to <HI>Cadwallador Magnus,</HI> the Epilogicall King of the <HI>Cambria</HI> Brittaines) how&s;oever <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> &s;hire is now the Fountaine and Magazine of <HI>Perry,</HI> it is delicious in the pallate, and in &s;ome places and con&s;titutions it is very opera|tive to qualifie drought, and quench thir&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Matheglin,</HI> (as it is related in the Hi&s;tory of <HI>Monmouth</HI>) was fir&s;t made in a fruitful Vally at the foot of <HI>Penmenmaure,</HI> and (in the Britti&s;h Greeke) a Vally is called a <HI>Gli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne;</HI> in that <HI>Gli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ne</HI> or Vally then inhabited one <HI>Mathew,</HI> who was called <HI>Mathew</HI> of the <HI>Gli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ne,</HI> this <HI>Mathew</HI> had many &s;warmes of Bees (and brethren) you know Bees make Hony: This Hony of the <HI>Glinne,</HI> with the indu&s;try of this <HI>Mathew,</HI> was fir&s;t invented, and it &s;till doth beare the Authours name <HI>Ma|thoglin;</HI> it is purgative, by rea&s;on of its melioration, it ea&s;es ob&s;tructions, it expells <HI>tremor cordis,</HI> it provokes dormo&s;ity, or &s;leepe&punc; it is (for the mo&s;t part) confined to the principalli|ty (or 13. Cantons) and in tho&s;e famous Territories it is e|quivalent with Muskadell.</P>
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<P><HI>Mead,</HI> came from the <HI>Meades</HI> and <HI>Per&s;iant,</HI> and though inferiour to <HI>Matheglin,</HI> yet it is much like it in ta&s;te and ope|ration.</P>
<P><HI>Braggot,</HI> is not of any Ancient &s;tanding, it is an inflaming kinde of tap-la&s;h, made of &s;undry Spices, being hot and dry in the third degree, it is good again&s;t cold and moi&s;t in the &s;e|cond; the Originall and Authour of it is unknowne.</P>
<P><HI>Pomperkin,</HI> &s;ome derive it from <HI>Pomerania,</HI> (a Dukedome in high <HI>Almaine</HI>) others from <HI>Pompey</HI> the Great; but it is not probable that &s;o great a Spirit was the Inventer of &s;o &s;mal and incon&s;iderable a drinke; it is made of Apples, which are &s;queezed and pre&s;&s;ed with water put among&s;t, it is a poore conditioned confection, and tis thought that <HI>Perkin Warbeck</HI> was the Authour of it, in his Rebellion again&s;t K. <HI>Hon.</HI> the 7.</P>
<P><HI>Beere,</HI> is a Dutch Boori&s;h Liquor, a thing not knowne in <HI>England,</HI> till of late dayes an Alien to our Nation, till &s;uch time as Hops and Here&s;ies came among&s;t us, it is a &s;awcy in|truder into this Land, and its &s;old by u&s;urpation; for the hou&s;es that doe &s;ell Beere onely, are nicknamed <HI>Ale hou&s;es;</HI> marke beloved, an <HI>Ale-hou&s;e</HI> is never called a <HI>Beere-hou&s;e,</HI> but a <HI>Beere-hou&s;e</HI> would have but &s;mall cu&s;tome, if it did not fal&s;ly carry the name of an <HI>Ale-hou&s;e;</HI> al&s;o it is common to &s;ay a <HI>Stand of Ale,</HI> it is not onely a <HI>Stand,</HI> but it will make a man under&s;tand, or &s;tand under; but <HI>Beere</HI> is often called a Hog&s;head, which all rationall men doe know is but a &s;wi|ni&s;h expre&s;&s;ion: But to returne to my Text, ALE, from whence I have digre&s;&s;ed, and too much made u&s;e of your pa|tience.</P>
<P>It is pa&s;t mans under&s;tanding to conceive the admirable flowing and overflowing Innundation of ALoquence that Rhetorickally runs from the trowling tongue of a con&s;tant
<PB N="12" REF="6">ALE-drinker: he will &s;peake ALEgories, &s;o my&s;tically &s;en|tentious, that the wi&s;e&s;t Bachan ALian Wine-bibber can ne|ver comprehend or under&s;tand 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 di&s;creet po&s;tures; marke him when he holds up his finger, and turnes up his <HI>ALbum Oculi,</HI> (the white of the Eye:) then is his judgement <HI>Ales,</HI> quick, or &s;wift, and his tongue is <HI>Ala,</HI> a birds wing, and his whole &s;elfe is <HI>Alius nemo,</HI> or no man &s;uch, and then may he be ju&s;tly e&s;teemed 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 Re|ligion beyond beliefe, interpret Scripture beyond all &s;en&s;e, and &s;hew you points of the Law above all the rea&s;on that can be ALEged. <HI>Matheo ALEman</HI> by the vertue and in&s;pi|ration of the fir&s;t Sylable of his &s;irname, ALE, did write that well compo&s;ed Booke, and mo&s;t excellent fancy of <HI>Guzman de ALfarach,</HI> or <HI>The Spani&s;h Rogue.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hould be endle&s;&s;e, and &s;peake much to no end, if I &s;hould repeat all the good and vertuous words which doe begin with ALE, as ALEgiance was ALowed for a Vertue in the dayes of <HI>Yore,</HI> and it is &s;o yet in France, Spaine, and in other places; for which cau&s;es of tranquility and plenty, which former times afforded, our Reverend and Wi&s;e Ance&s;tors gave them the name of ALcion dayes, as faire, cleare, and merry; for the Bird called <HI>Alcion</HI> or <HI>Halcion,</HI> or Kings Fi|&s;her, doth never &s;hew her &s;elfe, or is &s;eldome &s;eene in foule tempe&s;tious dayes, or &s;tormy weather. And chearfull times of the Heavenly Sun&s;hine of Peace and calmne&s;&s;e were a long
<PB N="13" REF="6">time the unde&s;erved ble&s;&s;ings which our Engli&s;h Edon en|joyed: then one friend, or one neighbour, or more, did e|&s;teem a Pot of ALE for a better Companion in Company, then of ten Pot Companions that delight to be drunk, and do or &s;tudy mi&s;chiefe.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides all this, beloved, the word <HI>ALEbria</HI> is in our tran&s;lation, a nouri&s;hing, and the word <HI>ALiment</HI> is nouri&s;h|ment, or pre&s;erving, and what is more approved for the nou|ri&s;hing and pre&s;erving of &s;ick or aged People, then ALE? It was wi&s;ely and truely &s;aid, that Wine makes the heart of man glad, but (not to be prophane) if it be con&s;idered by whom, and when, and where tho&s;e words were &s;poken; it is plaine and evident, that though the words are true and un|alterable, yet the per&s;on that &s;pake them is gone, and ga|thered to his Fathers in re&s;t and happine&s;&s;e, the time when is much altred, and the place where mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly changed: fir&s;t they were &s;poken by a King, and a Prophet, who could &s;peake nothing but truth; &s;econdly, tho&s;e words were ut|tered in a time, when plain hone&s;t dealing was u&s;ed between man and man, without deceit or equivocation; and thirdly, they were &s;poken in the City of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> the greate&s;t and mo&s;t famous Metropolis of the world at that time.</P>
<P>It is to be more then conjectured, that there was not then in that great City (or &s;carce any where) to be found one craf|ty Wine Merchant, one juggling Cooper, or one &s;ophi&s;tica|ting Vintener: that Wine was the pure and comfortable Juice of the Grape, without any mingle mangle, blending, balderda&s;hing commixtion, that Wine would glad the heart of man indeed; and he that will fetch me a quart of that, &s;hall have twelve pence, and thanks for his paine: But mo&s;t of our Wines now a dayes doe not glad, but mad the heart of
<PB N="14" REF="7">man, as by dayly and lamentable experience we perceive by the frequent quarrelling, &s;ighting, wounding, killing, and murdering, which happens by the exce&s;&s;ive abu&s;e of abu&s;ed fuming Wines, and intexicated braines; of all which, ALE (mo&s;t vertuous ALE) may plead, not Guilty.</P>
<P>We have many good Townes in England, who&s;e names are derived from ALE, as ALEsbury, &s;o called becau&s;e of the &s;trong ALE which was brewed there, Nut brown ALE, as browne as a berry, and there the fir&s;t Cawdles and Alebe|ries were invented for the comfort and re&s;toratives of old or &s;ick folks, or women that lay in.</P>
<P>The anciente&s;t Records of the famous Towne of <HI>Abing|ton</HI> in <HI>Barke&s;hire</HI> doe te&s;tifie, that the old name of it was ALEBENDONA, (and according to the old appellation) it is to this day, &s;eldome or never unfurni&s;hed with mo&s;t P|table, Potent, high and mighty ALE. Sanbich, Darby, Do|ver, Canterbury, Northdowne, (but e&s;pecially Wind&s;or) are Townes and places famous for brewing of this excellent Li|quor.</P>
<P>There are Antiquaries that doe more then &s;uppo&s;e, that <HI>Hercules</HI> had never atchieved or accompli&s;hed his twelve la|bors, but by the Vertue and Vigour of ALE, whereby hee vanqui&s;hed Giants, Mon&s;ters, Dragons; for which Con|que&s;ts and Victories (for the perpetuall honour of ALE) he was called <HI>ALcides.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o there are and have beene many good Knights and Gentlemen, with others of great worth and honour in England, who&s;e names began with ALE, as Sir <HI>ALEn Per|cy</HI> Sir <HI>ALEn Ap&s;ley,</HI> the Wor&s;hipfull Knights, and Gentry of the Families of the <HI>ALeffs,</HI> and <HI>ALEworths,</HI> or the <HI>AL|thams, ALE&s;ops, ALEas,</HI> &amp;c. with the mo&s;t famous Ma|&s;ter
<PB N="15" REF="7"><HI>Edward ALEn</HI> (our ever to be remembred <HI>Ro&s;cius,</HI> and renowned Stage Actor) he Acted an excellent part and piece of Charity in his life time, in founding and furni&s;hing a neat and comely Colledge at <HI>Dulledge</HI> in <HI>Surrey,</HI> three miles from <HI>London,</HI> for the perpetuall reliefe of poore aged people, and a Free Schoole for the education of youth: hee got not his e|&s;tate by <HI>Totos dies potare,</HI> by &s;itting whole dayes drinking, he had wi&s;edome and di&s;cretion to know the right u&s;e, and a|void the wrong abu&s;e of ALE.</P>
<P>For ALE is an enemy to idlene&s;&s;e, it will worke and bee working in the braine as well as in the Barrell; if it be abu|&s;ed by any man, it will trip up his heeles, and give him either a faire or a fowle fall, if hee bee the &s;tronge&s;t, &s;towte&s;t, and skilfulle&s;t Wra&s;tler either in Cornwall or Chri&s;tendome.</P>
<P>But if ALE bee moderately, mildly, and friendly dealt withall, it will appea&s;e, qualifie, mitigate, and quench all &s;triffe and contention, it will lay anger a&s;leepe, and give a furious man or woman a gentle Nap, and therefore it was rightly called Nappy ALE by our Learned and Reverend Forefathers.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides it is very medicinable, (as the be&s;t Phy&s;itians doe affirme) for Beere is &s;eldome u&s;ed or applyed to any inward or outward maladies, except &s;ometimes it bee warmed with a little Butter to wa&s;h the galled feete, or toes of a weary Traveller; but you &s;hall never know or heare of a u&s;uall drinker of ALE, to bee troubled with the Hippocondra, with Hippocondragacall ob&s;tructions or convul&s;ions, nor are they vexed (as others are) with &s;everall paines of &s;undry &s;orts of Gowts, &s;uch as are the <HI>Gon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gra, P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dogra, Chirogra,</HI> and the lame Hip-halting <HI>Sciatica,</HI> or with the intollerable griefe of the Stone in the Reines, Kidneys, or Bladder; for an expe|rimentall
<PB N="16" REF="8">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 decea&s;ed, his body was ope|ned, where in his Bladder was found a Stone as bigge as a Turkies Egge, which the skillfull Phy&s;itians and Chyrurgians did put into a Ba&s;en of ALE, and in a few houres the ALE did di&s;&s;olve the &s;ayd Stone to &s;mall Gravell. Take this into your con&s;iderations all you ignorant haters of ALE.</P>
<P>For, are not your eyes opened, your mindes illuminated, your under&s;tandings enlightned, and all your &s;pirits illu&s;tra|ted with gratefull Capacities? As to remember the benefit of health which ALE hath univer&s;ally beene the monumen|tall 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 ob&s;ervation, that French Wines being prohibited, and Beere (as the Proverbe &s;aith) is downe the winde, ALE being in &s;uch de&s;erved reque&s;t, that for one flaggon of Beere that is dranke, foure pots of ALE are acceptably taken, whereby Phy&s;itians have not beene &s;o much imployed, or Church|yards &s;o fat as formerly they were wont to bee when ALE was di&s;pi&s;ed, flighted, and neglected: therefore I &s;ay, let as many as doe love the pre&s;ervation of their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ves and healths, let them drinke ALE, and al&s;o let ALE be their drinke.</P>
<P>Moreover, ALE is melodious humonically mu&s;iquALE, for it puts men into Quavers, Semiquavers, Minoms, Trou|bles, (Treables I &s;hould &s;ay) Tenors, Counter-Tenors, Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">, and more then &s;ol, fa, ut, &amp;c. for ELA is an Anagram of ALE, and ELA is the ALdeboron, or highe&s;t Note of Mu|&s;ick, either in winde In&s;truments, &s;trung In&s;truments, or
<PB N="17" REF="8">Voyces; and truely it would doe a deafe body much good to heare the &s;trange Tones, Tunes, and Voyces, which do a&s;cend 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 &s;ing Selengers Round, to the tune of Greene &s;leeves, or Trenchmore, to the tune of Laugh and lye down.</P>
<P>Al&s;o ALE will make a man a Lingui&s;ht, it will teach him the Greeke Tongue in two hours, if hee ply his ALE ALpha|bet diligently: <HI>Me vat a whee,</HI> and <HI>me pat a whee, &s;haugh at orum, probibi tibi, &amp;c.</HI> in <HI>Arabick, Cornutian, Diocri&s;ian, Paracel&s;ian,</HI> and <HI>Catharackt.</HI></P>
<P>Thus (beloved brethren) I have related unto you (in part) the Antiquity, the Honour, the Vertues, and &s;everall u&s;es of ALE, which u&s;es will bee profitable to you, and to all &s;uch as will make good u&s;e of ALE.</P>
<P>The Application of all that I have &s;ayd, doth con&s;i&s;t onely in your &s;elves; the Le&s;&s;on is &s;hort, (as my Text was) it is no more then this, make con&s;tant Application of ALE to your &s;elves, and apply your &s;elves con&s;tantly to ALE. And &s;o my loving Brothers, I hold it no offence to &s;hut up all with a friendly conclu&s;ion, that before wee part company, wee may (for the better remembring of our Text, which was ALE) every man drink off his two Pots for Edification.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From my hou&s;e at the &s;igne of the Poets Head in Phoenix Alley, neare the Covent Garden, or the Globe Tavern, nigh to the mid&s;t of Long Aker, where <HI>ALE</HI> is my ALiment and Element.</DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>For your better Recreation heere followeth &s;ome few Lines in prai&s;e of ALE, written in merrier Times, by a mo&s;t Learned Authour.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="9">
<PB N="19" REF="9">
<HEAD>THE EXALE-TATION <HI>OF</HI> ALE,. The ancient Liquor of this REALME. OR, A Cleare Definition of its Efficatious operation in &s;everall <HI>Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">es, Arts,</HI> and <HI>Profe&s;&s;ions.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_NOt drunken nor &s;ober, but neighbour to both,</L>
<L>I met with a friend in <HI>Ale&s;-bury</HI> Vale;</L>
<L>He &s;aw by my face, that I was in the ca&s;e</L>
<L>To &s;peak no great harm of a <HI>Pot of good Ale.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then did he me greet, and &s;ayd &s;ince we meet,</L>
<L>(And he put me in minde of the name of the Dale)</L>
<L>For <HI>Ales-bury's</HI> &s;ake, &s;ome paines I would take,</L>
<L>And not <HI>bury</HI> the prai&s;e of a Pot of good <HI>Ale.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The more to procure me, then he did adjure me,</L>
<L>If the <HI>Ale</HI> I dranke la&s;t were nappy and &s;tale,</L>
<L>To do it its right, and &s;tir up my &s;pri'te,</L>
<L>And fall to commend a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="20" REF="10">
<L>Quoth I, To commend it I dare not begin,</L>
<L>Le&s;t therein my credit might happen to faile;</L>
<L>For many men now doe count it a &s;in,</L>
<L>But once to looke toward a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet I care not a pin, for I &s;ee no &s;uch &s;in,</L>
<L>Nor any thing el&s;e my courage to quail:</L>
<L>For this we do finde, that take it in kinde,</L>
<L>Much Virtue there is in a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And I meane not the ta&s;te, though thereby much grac't,</L>
<L>Nor the <HI>Merry-go-down</HI> without pull or hale,</L>
<L>Perfuming the throat when the &s;tomack's aflote,</L>
<L>With the fragrant &s;weet &s;cent of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor yet the delight that comes to the &s;ight,</L>
<L>To &s;ee how it flowers and mantles in graile,</L>
<L>As green as a Leek, with a &s;mile in the cheek,</L>
<L>The true orient colour of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But I meane the <HI>Mind,</HI> and the good it doth find;</L>
<L>Not onely the <HI>Body</HI> &s;o feeble and fraile:</L>
<L>For <HI>Body</HI> and <HI>Soule</HI> may ble&s;&s;e the Black-bowle,</L>
<L>Since both are beholden to a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For when <HI>heavine&s;&s;e</HI> the mind doth oppre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And <HI>&s;orrow</HI> and <HI>griefe</HI> the heart do a&s;&s;aile,</L>
<L>No remedy quicker, than to take off your Liquor,</L>
<L>And to wa&s;h away <HI>Cares</HI> with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Widdow</HI> that buried her husband of late</L>
<L>Will &s;oone have forgotten to weep and to waile,</L>
<PB N="21" REF="10">
<L>And think every day twain, till &s;he marry again,</L>
<L>If &s;he read the Contents of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is like a <HI>belly-bla&s;t</HI> to a <HI>cold heart,</HI></L>
<L>And warms and ingenders the <HI>&s;pirits vitall,</HI></L>
<L>To keep them from domage, all spirites owe their homage</L>
<L>To the <HI>Sp'rite of the Burtery</HI> a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And down to the <HI>legs</HI> the virtue doth goe,</L>
<L>And to a bad <HI>Foot-man</HI> is as good as a <HI>&s;aile,</HI></L>
<L>When it fills the veins and makes light the brains,</L>
<L>No <HI>Lackey</HI> &s;o nimble as a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Naked</HI> complains not for want of a Coat,</L>
<L>Nor on the cold weather will once turne his taile;</L>
<L>All the way as he goes, he cuts the wind with his no&s;e,</L>
<L>If he be but well wrapt in a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The hungry man takes no thought for his meat,</L>
<L>Though his &s;tomack would brook a <HI>ten-penny</HI> naile;</L>
<L>He quite forgets hunger, thinks on it no longer,</L>
<L>If he touch but the sparks of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Poor man</HI> will prai&s;e it, &s;o hath he good cau&s;e,</L>
<L>That all the yeare eats neither <HI>partridge</HI> nor <HI>quaile,</HI></L>
<L>But &s;ets up his re&s;t, and makes up his fea&s;t</L>
<L>With a cru&s;t of <HI>brown bread</HI> and a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Shepherd,</HI> the <HI>Sower,</HI> the <HI>Thre&s;her,</HI> the <HI>Mower,</HI></L>
<L>The one with his <HI>&s;cyth,</HI> the other with his <HI>flail,</HI></L>
<L>Take them out by the poll, on the peril of my &s;oul,</L>
<L>All will hold up their hands to a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="22" REF="11">
<L>The Soldier, the Saylor, the True man, the Tayler,</L>
<L>The Lawyer that Sels words by weight and by tale;</L>
<L>Take 'em all as they are, from the War to the Bar,</L>
<L>They all will approve of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All Religions and Nations, all Countreys and fa&s;hions,</L>
<L>Rich or poore, Knave or Whore, dwarfi&s;h or tall,</L>
<L>High or low, this I know, all will bow, Ile avow,</L>
<L>To the high power of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Sallamander,</HI> Brazier that baths in the fire,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t his Bellowes are blowing a blu&s;tering gale</L>
<L>Will &s;hake off his full Kan, and &s;weare each true <HI>Vulcan</HI></L>
<L>Will hazard his wits for a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Black-&s;mith, who&s;e bellowes all &s;ummer do blow,</L>
<L>With the fire in his face &s;till, without e're a Vaile,</L>
<L>Though his throat be full dry, he will tell you no lye,</L>
<L>But where you may be &s;ure of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who ever denies it, the Pri&s;oners will prai&s;e it,</L>
<L>That beg at the Grate, and ly in the <HI>Goale:</HI></L>
<L>For, even in their <HI>Fetters,</HI> they thinke them&s;elves better</L>
<L>May they get but a two penny black pot of <HI>Ale.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For though they be inclos'd in the Grate,</L>
<L>They'le &s;ing and be merry, and care for no Bale;</L>
<L>Nor for hunger, for cold, for fetters or fate,</L>
<L>The Comfort con&s;i&s;ts in a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Begger who&s;e portion is alwayes his prayers,</L>
<L>Not having a tatter to hang on his taile,</L>
<PB N="23" REF="11">
<L>Is as rich in his rags, as the churle in his bags,</L>
<L>If he once but &s;hakes hands with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It drives his poverty cleane out of minde,</L>
<L>Forgeting his <HI>brown-bread,</HI> his <HI>wallet,</HI> and <HI>maile,</HI></L>
<L>He walks in the hou&s;e like a <HI>&s;ix-footed low&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>If he once be enricht with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And he that doth <HI>dig</HI> in the <HI>ditches</HI> all day,</L>
<L>And wearies him&s;elfe quite at the <HI>Plough-taile,</HI></L>
<L>Will &s;peak no le&s;&s;e things, than of <HI>Queens</HI> and of Kings,</L>
<L>If he touch but the top of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis like a whet&s;tone to a <HI>blunt wit,</HI></L>
<L>And makes a &s;upply where Nature doth faile:</L>
<L>The dulle&s;t wit &s;oon will look quite through the Moon,</L>
<L>If his temples be wet with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then DICK to his <HI>Dearling,</HI> full boldly dares &s;peak,</L>
<L>Though before &s;illy fellow) his courage did quaile,</L>
<L>He gives her the <HI>&s;mouch,</HI> with his hand on his pouch,</L>
<L>If he meet by the way with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And it makes the <HI>Carter</HI> a <HI>Courtier</HI> &s;traight-way;</L>
<L>With Rhetoricall terms he will tell his tale;</L>
<L>With <HI>Courte&s;ies</HI> great &s;tore, and his Cap up before</L>
<L>Being &s;chool'd but a little with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Old man,</HI> who&s;e tongue wags fa&s;ter than his teeth,</L>
<L>(For old-age by nature doth drivel and drale)</L>
<L>Will frig and will fling, like a dog in a &s;tring,</L>
<L>If he warme his cold bloud with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="24" REF="12">
<L>And the good <HI>Old Clark,</HI> who&s;e <HI>&s;ight</HI> waxeth dark,</L>
<L>And ever he thinks the Print is too &s;mall:</L>
<L>He will &s;ee every Letter, and &s;ay Service better,</L>
<L>If he glaze but his eyes with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Cheeks</HI> and the <HI>Jawes,</HI> to commend it hath cau&s;e,</L>
<L>For where they were late but even man and pale:</L>
<L>They will get them a colour, no <HI>Crim&s;on</HI> is fuller,</L>
<L>By the true dy and tincture of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Mark her enemies, though they think them&s;elves wi&s;e,</L>
<L>How <HI>meager</HI> they look, with how low a wail:</L>
<L>How their cheeks do fall, without &s;pirits at all,</L>
<L>That alien their minds from a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now that the grains do work in my brains,</L>
<L>Me thinks I were able to give by retaile,</L>
<L>Commodities &s;tore, a dozen and more,</L>
<L>That flow to Mankind from a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>MUSES</HI> would mu&s;e, any &s;hould it mi&s;u&s;e;</L>
<L>For, it makes them to &s;ing like a <HI>Nightingale,</HI></L>
<L>With a lofty trim note, having wa&s;hed their throat,</L>
<L>With the <HI>Caballine</HI> Spring of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And the <HI>Mu&s;ician</HI> of any condition,</L>
<L>It will make him reach to the top of his <HI>Scale:</HI></L>
<L>It will clear his pipes, and moi&s;ten his lights,</L>
<L>If he drink <HI>alternatim</HI> a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Poet</HI> divine, that cannot reach Wine,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e that his mony doth many times fail;</L>
<PB N="25" REF="12">
<L>Will hit on the Vein, to make a good &s;trein,</L>
<L>If he be but <HI>in&s;pired</HI> with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For <HI>Ballads ELDERTON</HI> never bad Peer,</L>
<L>How went his wit in them, with how mer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y a gale;</L>
<L>And with all the &s;ails up, had he been at the cup,</L>
<L>And wa&s;hed his beard with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All <HI>Writers</HI> or <HI>Rimers,</HI> for &s;uch who&s;e mi&s;hap,</L>
<L>Is from <HI>Newgate</HI> up <HI>Houlbourn,</HI> to <HI>Tyburn</HI> to &s;ail;</L>
<L>Shall have &s;uddain expre&s;&s;ion of all their confe&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>If the Mu&s;e be but dew'd with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And the power of it &s;hows, no whit le&s;&s;e in <HI>Pro&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>It will file one's Phra&s;e, and &s;et forth his tale:</L>
<L>Fill him but a Boul, it will make his tongue troul,</L>
<L>For <HI>flowing &s;peech</HI> flows from a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And <HI>Ma&s;ter Philo&s;opher,</HI> if he drink his part,</L>
<L>Will not trifle his time in the <HI>Husk</HI> or the <HI>Shale;</HI></L>
<L>But go to the <HI>Kernell</HI> by the depth of his Art,</L>
<L>To be found in the bottom of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Give a <HI>Scholar</HI> of <HI>OXFORD</HI> a pot of <HI>Sixteens,</HI></L>
<L>And put him to prove that an <HI>Ape</HI> hath a <HI>tail:</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ixteen times better his Wit will be &s;een,</L>
<L>If you fetch him from <HI>Botley,</HI> a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus it helps <HI>Speech</HI> and <HI>Wit;</HI> And it hurts not a whit,</L>
<L>But rather doth further the <HI>Virtues Morale:</HI></L>
<L>Then think it not much, if a little I touch</L>
<L>The good moral parts of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="26" REF="13">
<L>To the <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>Religion</HI> it is a good friend,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e our Forefathers their wi&s;dome did faile,</L>
<L>That at every mile, next to the <HI>Church</HI> &s;tile,</L>
<L>Set a <HI>con&s;ecrate hou&s;e</HI> to a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now as they &s;ay, <HI>Beer</HI> beares it away;</L>
<L>The more is the pity, if Right might prevaile:</L>
<L>For with this &s;ame <HI>Beer,</HI> came up <HI>Here&s;ie</HI> here;</L>
<L>The old <HI>Catholique Drink</HI> is a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Beer</HI>'s but an up&s;tart from <HI>Dutchland</HI> here come,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Credit with us &s;ometimes is but &s;mall:</L>
<L>For in the Records of the Empire of <HI>Rome,</HI></L>
<L>The old <HI>Catholique Drink</HI> is a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O! the ancient tales that my Grandam hath told,</L>
<L>How merry we have been in <HI>Parlour</HI> and <HI>Hall;</HI></L>
<L>How in Chri&s;tmas time, we would dance, &s;ing, and rime,</L>
<L>As if we were mad with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Churches</HI> much owe, as we all do know;</L>
<L>For when they be drooping and ready to fall,</L>
<L>By a <HI>Whit&s;on</HI> or <HI>Church-Ale,</HI> up again they &s;hall goe,</L>
<L>And owe their <HI>repairing</HI> to a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Truth</HI> will do it right, it brings <HI>Truth</HI> to light,</L>
<L>And many bad matters it helps to reveile:</L>
<L>For, they that will drinke, will speak what they think;</L>
<L>TOM <HI>tell-troath</HI> lies hid in a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is <HI>Ju&s;tices</HI> friend, &s;he will it commend:</L>
<L>For, all is here &s;erved by <HI>mea&s;ure</HI> and <HI>tale:</HI></L>
<PB N="27" REF="13">
<L>Now <HI>true-tale</HI> and <HI>good mea&s;ure</HI> are <HI>Ju&s;tices</HI> trea&s;ure</L>
<L>And much to the prai&s;e of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And next I alledge, it is <HI>Fortitudes</HI> edge:</L>
<L>For a very Cow-herd, that &s;hrinks like a Snaile,</L>
<L>Will &s;wear and will &s;wagger, and out goes his dagger,</L>
<L>If he be but arm'd with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yea, ALE hath her <HI>Knights</HI> and <HI>Squires</HI> of degree,</L>
<L>That never were Cor&s;let, nor yet &s;hirt of mail,</L>
<L>But have fought their fights all, 'twixt the pot and the wall,</L>
<L>When once they were <HI>dubb'd</HI> with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And (&s;ure) it will make a man &s;uddenly <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Er'e-while was &s;carce able to tell a right tale:</L>
<L>It will open his jaw, he will tell you the <HI>Law,</HI></L>
<L>As made a right <HI>Bencher</HI> of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Or he that will make a <HI>bargain</HI> to gaine,</L>
<L>In <HI>buying</HI> or <HI>&s;etting</HI> his goods forth to <HI>&s;ale,</HI></L>
<L>Mu&s;t not plod in the mire, but &s;it by the fire,</L>
<L>And &s;eal up his Match with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But for <HI>Soberne&s;&s;e</HI> needs mu&s;t I confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>The matter goes hard: and few doe prevaile</L>
<L>Not to goe too deep, but temper to keep;</L>
<L>Such is the <HI>Attractive</HI> of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But here's an amends, which will make all friends,</L>
<L>And ever doth tend to the be&s;t avail;</L>
<L>If you take it too deep, it will make you but &s;leep;</L>
<L>So comes no great harm of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="28" REF="14">
<L>If (re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ling) they happen to fall to the ground,</L>
<L>The fall is not great they may hold by the Raile:</L>
<L>If into the water, they cannot be drown'd,</L>
<L>For that gift is given to a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If drinking about they chance to fall out,</L>
<L>Feare not the <HI>Alarm,</HI> though fle&s;h be but frail,</L>
<L>It will prove but &s;ome blows, or at mo&s;t a bloudy no&s;e,</L>
<L>And friends again &s;treight with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> will favour ALE, as it is bound,</L>
<L>And be again&s;t <HI>Beer</HI> both tooth and nail:</L>
<L>They &s;end up and down all over the Town,</L>
<L>To get for their Patient a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their <HI>Ale-berries, Cawdles,</HI> and <HI>Po&s;&s;ets</HI> each one,</L>
<L>And <HI>Sillabubs</HI> made at the Milking-pale,</L>
<L>Although they be many, <HI>Beer</HI> comes not in any,</L>
<L>But all are compos'd with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in very deed, the <HI>Hop's</HI> but a weed,</L>
<L>Brought o're again&s;t Law, and here &s;et to &s;ale:</L>
<L>Would the Law were renew'd, and no more <HI>Beer</HI> brew'd,</L>
<L>But all good men betake them to a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Law that will take it under her wing:</L>
<L>For at every <HI>Law-day,</HI> or <HI>Moot of the hale,</HI></L>
<L>One is &s;worne to &s;erve our <HI>Soveraign</HI> the KING,</L>
<L>In the ancient <HI>Office</HI> of a CONNER of ALE.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There's never a Lord of <HI>Mannor</HI> or of <HI>Town,</HI></L>
<L>By &s;trand or by land, by hill or by dale,</L>
<PB N="29" REF="14">
<L>But thinks it a <HI>Franchi&s;e</HI> and a <HI>Flowr</HI> of the CROWN,</L>
<L>To hold the <HI>A&s;&s;ize</HI> of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And though there by <HI>writs,</HI> from the <HI>Courts Paramou~t,</HI></L>
<L>To &s;tay the proceedings of the <HI>Cours Paravaile;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Law</HI> favours it &s;o, you may come, you may go,</L>
<L>There lies no <HI>Prohibition</HI> to a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They talk much of <HI>State,</HI> both early and late,</L>
<L>But if <HI>Ga&s;coign</HI> and <HI>Spain,</HI> their <HI>Wine</HI> &s;hould but fail,</L>
<L>Noremedy then, with us <HI>Engli&s;hmen,</HI></L>
<L>But the <HI>State</HI> it mu&s;t &s;tand by a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And they that &s;it by it, are good men and quiet,</L>
<L>No dangerous <HI>Plotters</HI> in the Common-weal</L>
<L>Of <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> and <HI>Murther:</HI> for, they never go further,</L>
<L>Than to call for, and pay for a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To the prai&s;e of CAMBRIVIUS that good <HI>Britti&s;h King</HI></L>
<L>That devi&s;ed for his Nation (by the <HI>Wel&s;hmens tale</HI>)</L>
<L>Seventeen hundred years before CHRIST did spring,</L>
<L>The happy invention of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But he was a <HI>Paynim,</HI> and ALE then was rife,</L>
<L>Yet after CHRIST came and bid us all hail,</L>
<L>Saint DAVID tid never trink <HI>Peer</HI> in her life,</L>
<L>Put all <HI>Cwwrwwhibley</HI> a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>North</HI> they will pray&s;e it, and pray&s;e it with pa&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Where every <HI>River</HI> gives name to a <HI>Dale:</HI></L>
<L>There men are yet living, that are of th' old fa&s;hion,</L>
<L>No <HI>Nectar</HI> they know but a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="30" REF="15">
<L>The <HI>PICTS</HI> and the <HI>SCOTS,</HI> for ALE, were at lots,</L>
<L>So high was the skill, and &s;o kept under &s;eal:</L>
<L>The <HI>PICTS</HI> were undone, &s;lain each mothers &s;on,</L>
<L>For not teaching the <HI>SCOTS</HI> to make <HI>Hether Eale.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But hither or thither; it skils not much whether:</L>
<L>For drink mu&s;t be had, men live not by <HI>Keal,</HI></L>
<L>Nor by <HI>Havor-bannocks,</HI> nor by <HI>Havor-jannocks,</HI></L>
<L>The thing the SCOTS live on is a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now, if you will &s;ay it, I will not denay it,</L>
<L>That many a man it brings to his bale:</L>
<L>Yet what fairer end, can one wi&s;h to his friend,</L>
<L>Than to die by the dart of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet, let not the innocent beare any blame,</L>
<L>It is their own doings to break o're the pale:</L>
<L>And neither the <HI>Mault</HI> nor the good Wife in fault,</L>
<L>If any be potted with a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They tell whom it kills, but &s;ay not a word,</L>
<L>How many a man liveth both &s;ound and hale,</L>
<L>Though he drink no Beer any day in the yeare,</L>
<L>By the <HI>Radicall humour</HI> of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, to &s;peak of <HI>Killing,</HI> that am I not willing;</L>
<L>For that, in a manner, were but to raile:</L>
<L>But Beer hath his name, cau&s;e it brings to the Buyer;</L>
<L>Therefore well-fare &s;ay I to a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Too many (I wis) with their deaths proved this;</L>
<L>And therefore if ancient Records do not faile)</L>
<PB N="31" REF="15">
<L>He that fir&s;t brew'd the <HI>Hop,</HI> was rewarded with a <HI>rope,</HI></L>
<L>And found his <HI>Beer</HI> far more bitter then ALE.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O ALE <HI>ab alendo</HI> thou <HI>Liquor</HI> of <HI>LIFE!</HI></L>
<L>That I had but a mouth as big as a <HI>Whale!</HI></L>
<L>For mine is too little to touch the lea&s;t tittle</L>
<L>That belongs to the pray&s;e of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus (I trow) &s;ome <HI>Vertues</HI> I have marked you out,</L>
<L>And never a <HI>Vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> in all this long t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aile,</L>
<L>But that after the <HI>Pot</HI> there complet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a <HI>Shot,</HI></L>
<L>And thats thonly <HI>blot</HI> of a &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With that my friend &s;aid&punc; That <HI>Blot</HI> will I bear,</L>
<L>You have done very well, it is time to &s;trike &s;aile;</L>
<L>Wee'l have &s;ix pots more, though I die on the &s;core,</L>
<L>To make all this good of a <HI>Pot of good ALE.</HI></L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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