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Drinke, which is so wholesome, and so good, knowing how to make the
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In 1628 Morton's crew raised a towering Maypole and sang jolly songs written by Morton ( "some tending to lasciviousnes") with lyrics such as "Drinke and be merry, merry, merry boyes."
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Drinke is their whole desire, the pot is all their pride, The sobrest head doth once a day stand needfull of a guide.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cawdle and no _salted Drinke_; if indifferently, some Cawdle and some _salted Drinke_; but if dull, nothing was given to him but
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And even as the Ægyptians after their feastings and carousings caused a great image of death to be brought in an shewed to the guests and by-standers, by one that cried aloud, Drinke and be merry, for such shalt thou be when thou art dead: So have I learned this custome or lesson, to have alwaies death, not only in my imagination, but continually in my mouth.
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Recd a half-pint of Rum to Drinke ye King's Health.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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Just Between these two spaws is a fine Cleare and sweete Spring of Comon water very good to wash Eyes and pleasant to Drinke.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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In consideration whereof, the said ---- doth promise and grant, to and with the said ---- to pay for his passing, and to find him with Meat, Drinke, Apparell and Lodging, with other necessaries during the said terme; and at the end of the said terme, to give him one whole yeeres provision of
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870
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"Sit you downe and dryncke," "Drinke, drynke for God's sake," are two of the phrases.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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CHICAGO, Feb. 11/PRNewswire/-- Just in time for Valentine's Day, a free e-book edition is available of the classic 17th century book Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke by author and physician Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma.
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