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"Ah, signor," replied the servant, "I was just thinking that a cup of Malmsey would relieve my parched throat, when, lo! my desire finds an echo in your heart." "One single glass a parting bumper." "One or many, signor, as you wish either will be welcome; but the excellent wine locked in the cupboard of your room will be particularly acceptable."
"I thought the earth revolved round the sun," she said. "Wasn't that what Galileo proved?" "He was afterward discovered to be mistaken," I said. "That was what caused all the trouble." "What trouble?" she asked, much interested. "Why, he and Socrates had to take hemlock or they were drowned in a butt of malmsey, I really forget which."
The malmsey, dry canary and Indian allspice, might transform the Scheldt and Baltic Sea into a huge vat of hippocras." Ulrich followed his guide from street to street. Wherever he looked, he saw vast wealth in barns and magazines; in houses, palaces and churches. Hans Eitelfritz stopped before a jeweller's shop, saying: "Look here!
Bonneval made me a present of twelve bottles of malmsey from Ragusa, and of twelve bottles of genuine scopolo a great rarity, with which I made a present in Corfu which proved very useful to me, as the reader will discover.
From England, Antwerp imports immense quantities of fine and coarse woollen goods; the finest wool; excellent saffron, but in small quantities; a great quantity of lead and tin; sheep and rabbit skins, and other kinds of fine peltry and leather; beer, cheese, and other sorts of provisions, in great quantities; also Malmsey wines, which the English import from Candia."
"Dear lad, thou art the sweetest fellow in all the world, I do love thee as a lover loveth his lass. La, thou dost make me shamed to speak so to me in this solitary place, no one being by, and yet if thou wilt have me say so, I do love thee as thou lovest me. Nay then, wilt thou not take a drink of good Malmsey? After thee, lad, after thee.
There was a hare, trapped on the hillside, and stewed in Malmsey, of a flavour so delicate that Gonzaga was regretting him his heavy indulgence in the ortolans; there was trout, fresh caught in the stream below, and a wondrous pasty that turned liquid in the mouth.
Wine of Languedoc and of Orleans thereto: Single beer, and other that is double: Spruce beer, and the beer of Hamburgh: Malmsey, Tires, and Romany." But some of the varieties are hidden under obscure names. We recognise Muscadel, Rhine wine, Bastard, Hippocras, however.
Take three pints of Malmsey, or Muscadine, of Sage and Rue, of each one handful, boil them together gently to one pint, then strain it and set it on the fire again, and put to it one penniworth of Long Pepper, Ginger four drams, Nutmegs two drams, all beaten together, then let it boil a little, take it off the fire, and while it is very hot, dissolve therein six penniworth of Mithridate, and three penniworth of Venice Treacle, and when it is almost cold put to it a pint of strong Angelica water, or so much Aqua vitæ, and so keep it in a glass close stopped.
The creature certainly died a luscious death, quite equal to Clarence's in the butt of Malmsey. GRAVE though he was at times, Doctor Long Ghost was a decided wag. Everyone knows what lovers of fun sailors are ashore afloat, they are absolutely mad after it. So his pranks were duly appreciated. The poor old black cook!
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