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Cider the heft of Drinks. 
that drinks it, and fbmetimes his life. If 
it be old Wine, which is commonly the beft, 
then the Vintners cunning in preferving it, 
and making it palatable by his fecret and 
concealed Mixtures, renders it dangerous 
to be drank either fading, or in great quan¬ 
tity 3 many having died fuddenly meerly 
by drinking of fuch Wine : For there is 
no Drink more homogeneal to the blood 
than Wine , the Spirit thereof being the 
beft Vehicle of any Medicine to the moft 
remote parts that the blood circulates in; 
therefore if any evil mixture be in it, the 
more it operates, and is fooneft conveyed 
to the heart and all other parts of the bo-> 
dy. 
It is recorded by Pliny, That Androcy - 
des , a noble, fage, and wife Philofopher, 
wrote unto Alexander the Great, to correct 
and reform his intemperate drinking of 
Wine, whereto he was very prone, and in 
his fits of Drunkennels very rude3 the im¬ 
moderate drinking whereof is by him af¬ 
firmed to be very dangerous and pernici¬ 
ous. 
As for Cider, that we have had the long 
and conftant experience of the making of 
it, and preferving it for feveral years in its 
true and genuine tafte 3 Cider of two and 
three 
