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Cider the left of Drinks. 
three years old being not unufual in the 
Cider- Countries, the late Lord Scudamore 
having had a Repofitory on purpofe to 
preferve it in, at his Seat in HerefordJJjire , 
and that without any Sophiftication or A- 
dulteration, but by the only Art of right 
preparing and ordering it ; by which he 
preferved Cider many years, it ftill retain¬ 
ing, or rather improving its goodnefs. 
"The conftant ufe of this Liquor, either 
Ample or diluted, hath been found by long 
experience to avail much to health and 
long life ; preferving the Drinkers of it in 
their full ftrength and vigour even to very- 
old Age; witnefs that famous Hiftory in 
my Lord Bacons Hiftory of Life and Death , 
of eight men that but a little before his 
time danced a Morris-dance , whole Age 
computed together made eight hundred 
years ; for what fome wanted of one hun¬ 
dred years,others exceeded. Thefe were re¬ 
ported to be Tenants of one iVlannour, be¬ 
longing to the Earl of Ejfex at that time, 
and to be conftant C/^er-drinkers. And 
divers other Prefidents of the like nature, 
Herefordjhire , GloHCcftcrfoire, &c. can fur- 
nifti you withal. 
If it be new and unfermented, it preju¬ 
diced! not the Drinker; nor if it be,old, 
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