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the memory of the abfent, or the falutation of thofe who are 

 prefent, which goes round in the time of drinking;" or more 

 fully, " dricka ens Jhaal.'^ As Dan. Jlaal fignifies a bowl or 

 drinking-velTel ; at dricka ens Jkaal is to drink one's health. 

 Yoc.Jkaal. In Isidorus we find the phrafe, '' Calices tlfcalice, 

 poculorum genera." Origin, lib. xx. c. 5. 



In the fame manner did the ancient Goths exprefs their- re- 

 gard to their fovereigns. They drank the king'' s Jkoll. Hence 

 Warnefrid relates, that when Grimaold, King of the Lom- 

 bards, had determined to kill Bertaridus, after he was over- 

 powered with wine, the miniflers of the palace being ordered 

 to bring to. him liquors, with difhes of various kinds, afked of 

 him, in the king's name, to drink a full bowl in honour of him. 

 But he, fufpedling the fnare, fecretly procured that it ihould be 

 filled with water. Immediately, promifing that he would drink 

 it off in honour of the king, he made a libation, by pouring out 

 a little of the water. De Gejlis Longobard. lib. v. Thefe Jkolls 

 in honour of the king, as we learn from Loccenius, they ufed 

 alfo to drink Handing. Ubifupra. 



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