Ale, and Tobacco ' 31 



glad of a tub: dee heare Ale? doe not you knowe the man that did the 

 bottle bring? 261 



Ale. Thou art glad of a Bottle thy selfe, Wine, sometimes, and so 

 is Beere too, for all he froaths now. 



Beere. So, so. 



Ale. My third Prerogatiue, is my Learning. 



Wine. Learning? If you haue the Liberall Sciences, pray be free, 

 and lets heare some. 



Ale. For that, though I could giue you demonstration, for breuities 

 sake I remit you to my bookes. 



Beere. Bookes? printed Cum primlegio no doubt on't, and sold for 

 the Company of Stationers: what are the names? 271 



Ale. Admire me, but when I name learned, though not the great 

 Alexander Ale and Tostatus the lesuite. 



Wine. O learned Ale, you scorne to make Indentures any more, 

 but you might as well haue concluded this without booke. 



Beere. Why, you will shortly be Towne-Clerke, the Citie Chron- 

 icler is too meane a place for you. 



Ale. Now for my strength and invincibilitie. 



Beere. But heere let mee interrupt you, talke no more of strength, 

 none but Beere deserues to bee call'd strong, no pen is able to set 

 downe my victories. I? why, I haue been the destruction.— 281 



Wine. Of Troy, hast not? heere your owne mouthes condemne 

 you: if killing be your conquest, euery Quacksaluing knaue may haue 

 the credit of a rare Phisician, that sends more to the Church and 

 Churchyard, then diseases doe: I Wine, comfort & preserue, let that 

 be my Character. I am cosen German to the blood, not so like in my 

 appearance as I am in nature, I repaire the debilities of age, and re- 

 uiue the refrigerated spirits, exhilarate the heart, and Steele the brow 

 with confidence. For you both the Poet hath drawne your memoriall 

 in one. 290 



, nil spissius ilia 



Dum bihitur, nil clarius est dum mingitur, wide 

 Constat quod muitasfceces in cor pore linquat. 

 Nothing goes in so thicke. 

 Nothing comes out so thinne: 

 It must needs foUow then, 

 Your dregs are left within. 



