GULATO

I Like all well enough but the last words of yours (Sperto) for me thinks it is as good sport to hear the Falconer and the Hu ter fallen out, as for thieves to appeach one and other Good fellows take their liquour quietly with out any of these faults, and help to hold up tillage by the swift utterance of the surmounting grain. Your invective against good companions (for so I must needs call them that love drink) is oh be refelled rather with a Cudgill, then with reason. When had you any gallant Captain, or man of resolution but would drink health after health, until themselves were passed health and help? Who was more valiant then Captain Shinke? Yet more then he, who loved drink? Is it even so? then I see thou wantest breeding, that art ingrateful for a kindness offered; and ignorant, not sensible of the salutiferous operation of well brewed Ale: which for thy edification, I will manifest and demonstrate by a very familiar and apt similitude: and within the circum ference of thy feeble comprehension, whereunto I will now accommodate my whole oration. Why, thou art in the right. I tell thee I am at this instant so inflamed with the spirit of malt, and my wits so refined with the manifold reverberations, and continual posting correspondence between the residence of that li quor in my stomach, and the quintisencicall receits in my head, that no particle of time passes, but whole streams of exusflations, and insufflations ascend to the brains, and there work wonders. By reason whereof it were not hard for me to furnish Rider himself with 2000 new words not yet seen in his Dictionary. I could turn Astronomer and give names to any stars that want. I can pass for a Physi cian among many fools, and kill as many as the best Doctor of them all. Finally, what would I not undertake as now I am armed? But to return to my druggicall similitude, from which thy way wardnes hath diverted me. You shall stay to hear it; and let me have your judgement, whither I might not with a little reading prove a perfect urinal st. I tell thee it's the best Physic that ever thou hadst. Oh Master Spurco, you are welcome: speak your mind freely: do not you think it better to fit merrily a whole winter's day, and most partly of the night by a good fire, and command (Like men of authority) the Tapster to fill us and Ocean of drink if we lift, and there among good fellows to hear more news then all the world knows to be true, then to toil and trash in the dirt with out conversation, seldom coming near one another as Hunter's do. I am crushed in the head: no more drinking; fare well good Ale.