GENTLEMAN OF THE OLDEN TIME. 85 



" He drauk a glass of wine or two at meals, 

 very often syrup of gilliflower in his sack, and 

 had always a tun glass without feet by his side, 

 holding a pint of small beer, which he ofteii 

 stirred with rosemary. He was well natured, 

 but soon angry ; he lived to be a hundred ; 

 never lost his eye-sight, but always read and 

 wrote without spectacles, and got on horse- 

 back without help. Until past fourscore he 

 rode to the death of a stag as well as 

 any. 



