The Preface. 
be a great improvement, considering that an 
Acre of Land-planted with Apple-trees, will by 
its Fruit yield more Liquor than two or three 
Acres ofBarly can make $ and that without the 
annual charge of Plowing, Sowing, &c. 
But the main Obje&ion that may be made 
by the more fober part of this Nation, is. That 
the increafe of thej'e intoxicating and inebria¬ 
ting Liquors, is an encouragement to the uni- 
verfal vice of Drunkcnnefs. To which it may 
be anfwered. That that vice is not now fo reg¬ 
nant in this Ijlc,as it hath been in former Ages, 
and now is in other European Nations if Hi- 
Jlory may be credited. As in Virgil’j time. 
Drinking and Quaffing to their God. Bacchus 
was in ufe'qthat Art being then much inrequejl, 
and the Goat made a Sacrifice to that God,for 
cropping the tender frigs of the Vine that 
yielded their beloved Liquor. 
Non aliarn ob culpam Baccho Caper omnibus 
aris 
Cgditur, 8cc. 
Only tor this Crime we on Altars pay 
Bacchus a Goat, and a& the antient Play. 
Then from great Villages Athenians hartc. 
And where the High-ways meet, the Price 
is plac'd, 
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