Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

428 Fancies and Fantasticks.Dipping in this diviner Ink, my pen,Write myself sober, and fall to't agen.The Answer of Ale to the Challenge of Sack.Come, all you brave wights,That are dubbed Ale-knightsNow set out your selves in fight :And let them that crackIn the praises of Sack,Know Malt is of mickle might.Though Sack they defineTo holy divine,Yet it is but natural liquor:Ale hath for its partAn addition of art,To make it drink thinner or thicker.Sacks fiery fumeDoth waste and consumeMens humidum radicale ;It scaldeth their livers,It breeds burning feavers,ProvesBut History gathers,From aged fore-fathers,Vinum venenum reale.That Ale's the true liquor of life :Men Hv'd long in health,And preserv'd their wealth,Whilst Barley-broth onely was rife.