Ale, and Tobacco 27 



the Poeticall furie, the Helicon of the Muses, of better value then 

 Beere; I should be sorry else. 120 



Beere. Thou art sorie wine indeed sometimes: Value? you are 

 come vp of late, men pay deere for your company, and repent it: that 

 giues you not the precedencie; though Beere set not so great a price 

 vpon himselfe, he meanes not to bate a graine of his worth, nor sub- 

 scribe to Wine for all his braueries, 



Wine. Not to mee? 



Beere. Not to you: why whence come you pray? 



Wine. From France, from Spaine, from Greece. 



Beere. Thou art a mad Greeke indeed. 



Wine. Where thou must neuer hope to come: who dares denie 

 that I haue beene a trauailer? , 131 



Beere. A trauailer? in a tumbrell, a little Beere will go farther: 

 why Wine, art not thou kept vnder locke and key, confinde to some 

 corner of a Cellar, and there indeed commonly close prisoner, vnlesse 

 the laylor or Yeoman of the Bottles turne the Key for the chamber- 

 maid now and then, for which shee vowes not to leaue him, till the 

 last gaspe, where Beere goes abroad, and randeuous in euery place. 



Win. Thou in euery place? away hop of my thumbe: Beere, I am 

 asham'd of thee. 139 



Beer, Be asham'd of thy selfe, and blush Wine thou art no better. 

 Beere shall haue commendations for his mildnesse and vertue, when 

 thou art spit out of mens mouthes, & distasted: thou art an hypocrite, 

 Wine, art all white sometimes, but more changeable then Proteus: 

 thou wouldst take vpon thee to comfort the blood, but hast beene the 

 cause that too many noble veines haue beene emptied: thy vertue is 

 to betray secrets, the very preparatiue to a thousand rapes and mur- 

 ders, and yet thou darest stand vpon thy credit, and preferre thy selfe 

 to Beere, that is as cleare as day. 



Sug. Well said Beere, hee beares vp stiEEe like a Constable. Now 

 will I play my part with'em both. Sir, To Wine 150 



This is intoUerable. 



Wine. The vessell of your wit leakes, Beere, why thou art drunke. 



Beere. So art thou Wine, euery day i'th weeke, and art faine to be 

 carried foorth of doores. 



150 To. Misprinted Tn. 



