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It was tolerably large and of very chaste workmanship. Graven upon it were the following words: "Poculum Eclesie De LXXN Dewy Brefy 1574." "Do you always keep this cup in that chest?" said I. "Yes sir! we have kept it there since the cup was given to us by de godly Queen Elizabeth."
"In the late times," he said, "those must be thankful who have saved life and land; yet when I am about to pronounce this toast, I cannot but regret an old heirloom, Lady Emily, a POCULUM POTATORIUM, Colonel Talbot "
Bigot spoke very courteously to him, much as he disliked the idea of his companionship with Philibert. "We must all return by the time the Cathedral bells chime noon. Take one parting cup before you go, Le Gardeur, and prevail on Colonel Philibert to do the same, or he will not praise our hospitality, I fear." "Not one drop more this day, were it from Jove's own poculum!"
For what saith the school of Salerno? Poculum, mane haustum, Restaurat naturam exhaustam." "Your learning is too profound for me," replied the page; "and so would your draught be likewise, I fear." "Not a whit, fair sir a cordial cup of sack, impregnated with wormwood, is the best anti-pestilential draught; and, to speak truth, the pestilential miasmata are now very rife in the atmosphere.
The POCULUM POTATORIUM of the valiant Baron, his Blessed Bear, has a prototype at the fine old Castle of Glamis, so rich in memorials of ancient times; it is a massive beaker of silver, double gilt, moulded into the shape of a lion, and holding about an English pint of wine.
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