A treatise of warm drink ... Intersprest [sic] with divers observations touching the drinking of cold water / [F. W].
- F. W.
- Date:
- 1725
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise of warm drink ... Intersprest [sic] with divers observations touching the drinking of cold water / [F. W]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Seneca, I11 his fir ft Book, Deira, raaketh men¬ tion of hot Water, the which was in Ule to be drunk in his Time : And in his fecond Book, the 2^th Chapter, pi on likewife in his fiftyieventh Book, proveth the fame in the Hiftory ot' Dr ufim7 Bon to Tiberuis: And in his fifty ninth Book, in- treating of Cains Caligula, who killed an Hoft for letting hot Water in the time of the Funeral of DrufinS) as a Man irreligious to fell hot Water for Delicious drinking, in time of common mour¬ ning. Moreover, Marcellinm, in his twenty eighth Book ihews, that all Taverns were forbid to fell any hot Water qr Wine, until four a Clock in the Afternoon. Again, Cornelius Tacitus, writing of the poy- foninc of Britannicus, ihews how the Means thev wrought to Poifon him without iufpicion was, to bring his Drink ip hot, that he called for Cold Water to allay it,wherein they had put the Poyfon. Plinie alfo, in his feventh Book, fpeaking of Marcus Afmius maketh it manifefj: Fbr, faith he, the Drink being too hot, he held it in his Hand to cool, until one fitting next to him remembred him of it, and laid it would be too cold. Now to prove it by the Authorities of Poets, I will Hr ft begin with Plautus, who in his Comedy of The Vaunting Souldier, faith, Lu. Neque ille hie calidum exhibit in fr.andium. Pa. Neque tu bibifii t Lu. Dii me ferdant fi bibir Si bibere potui. Pa. Qui jam f Lu. Uuia enivi abforbui • Nam nimis calebat, amburebat gutturem ; That is, Lu. Neither did he drink hot Wine to his Dinner, pa. Nor thou? Lu. As God fhall help me, I neither drank, nei¬ ther could L Pa. What then? Lu. I Pupped it; For it was fo hot it burnt my Throat. What can be more plain than this ? Again the fame Author]ill another Comedy, bring? forth Labrax fpeaking to Neptune in thefe Words :](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30346988_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
