30 HISTORT of the SOCIETr. 



" Skul, Skull, Skoll. i. A goblet or large bowl, for con- 

 taining liquor of any kind. 



The Troiane women ftude with hare doun fchaik 

 About the here, weping with mony allake : 

 And on we keft of warme milk mony ■A.Jkul, 

 And of the blude of facrifice coupis ful : 

 The faule we bery in fepulture on this wyfe, 

 The lattir halefing fyne loud fchoutit thrys. 



DouGL. Virg. 69. /. 20» 



As coupis correfponds to pateras in the original, Jhul is ufed for 

 cymbia, which Douglas elfewhere renders in this manner ; 



Tua filver coppis fchapin like ane bote. 



Ibid. 136. /. 35. 



We are not, however, hence to conclude, that the vjoxAJkull ne- 

 ceflarily denoted a vefl'el of this form ; for he elfewhere ufes it, 

 conjoined vj'ikSi flagon, in rendering crater as : 



For ioy thay pingil than for till renew 

 Thare bankettis with al obferuance dew ; 

 And for thir tithingis, in flakoun and in Jkull, 

 Thay Ikynk the wyne, and wauchtis cowpis full. 



Ibid. 210. /. 5. 



2. The term has been metonymically ufed to denote the falu- 

 tation of one who is prefent, or the refpedt paid to an abfent 

 perfon, by expreffing a wilh for his health ; while he who does 

 fo at the fame time partakes of the drink that is ufed by the 

 company, in token of his cordiality. This is what is now called 

 " drinking one's health." In this fenfe it occurs in the account 

 of Cowrie's confpiracy, publiflied by royal authority. " The 



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