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45255	Porter, Henry, M. D.	Cups and Their Customs			.txt	text/plain	17381	873	77	[Illustration: SPRIG OF BORAGE IN GLASS CUP OF THE THIRD OR FOURTH CENTURY. recipes for the brewing of compound drinks, technically called "Cups," cup-drink, little and good, will, for its social and moral qualities, drinking-vessels, and apply it to our modern word "cup," we must The Flemish drinking-cups of the 16th and 17th centuries were called with Edgar, A.D. 800, who also passed a law, on the suggestion of St. Dunstan, to prevent excessive drinking, by ordering cups to be marked wines were taken in a peculiar kind of vessel called a "murrhine cup," in their cans, and wine in their grace-cup." Excess in drinking was given, the proposer was expected to drink his cup full of wine as in large silver cups, from which no one is allowed to drink before the To a bottle of hock add three wine-glasses of sherry, one lemon Heat two quarts of ale; add four wine-glasses of brandy, three	./cache/45255.txt	./txt/45255.txt