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Humorous Account Of The Tipplers In Germany.
the company rises , 1 wait on the prince to his chamber-door , where he retires , and I am endeavouring to do the same ; but I find myself stopt in the antichamber by the master of the horse and the marshal of the court , who , with large bumpers in their hands , drink the prince ' s health to me , and prosperity for ever to tbe 7 nost laudable chapter of Wurtzbourg . I protest to them that I am the bishop ' s most humble servantand that I have a very great veneration for the
, most laudable chapter , but that to drink their healths would destroy mine , and therefore I beg they would excuse my pledging them ; but I may just as well talk tp the winds , these two healths must be drank or I shall be reckoned no friend to the prince and chapter . Were this all I should come off very well ; but then comes M . deZobel , one of the most intrepid carousel's of the agewiio squeezes me by the
, hand , and with an air and tone of perfect cordiality , says to me , Ton love our prince so well that you cannot refuse drinking to the prosperity of the illustrious family of Houtten . And when he has made this . moving speech , he takes off a monstrous g lass to witness his zeal for the life of his master ; after which an officious Hey duke brings me a
glass , and being infected with the gout that prevails at this court , assures me that the wine cannot possibly do me any harm , because it is the very same that the prince drinks . By a persuasion founded on so just an inference , I have the courage to venture on another glass , which I have . no sooner drank than I stagger and can drink no more , when , in order . complete ! ;/ to finish me , Mr . de Peltesbeim , a kind civil gentlemanbut the best wine-bibber that I knowaccosts
, , jne with a smile , and says , Come , dear Baron , one glass more to our -better acquaintance . I conjure him to give me quarter , but he embraces me , and calls me Heir bruder ( his dear brother . ) Plow can a man withstand such tender compliments ? At last I put myself in a . fit posture to run away ; 1 sneak off , steal down stairs as well as I canand squeeze myself into a sedanwhich carries me homewhere
, , , my servants drag me out like a dead corpse , and fling me on a bed , as if the next thing was to lay me out ; 1 sleep seven or eight hours , awake in a perfect maze , put myself to rights again , and prepare to make fresh visits or to receive them '; but , whichsoever I do , I presently find myself in such a pickle again that 1 cannot walk alone .
There is no such thing as conversation here betwixt one friend and ' another without the bottle ; so that 1 am tempted to think the inhabitants of this city are descended from Sitenus , and that the old sot left them the gift of hard-drinking for a legacy , as St . Hubert bequeathed to his family the power of curing- a frenzy . From Bamberg he writes , There are a good number of the nobility settled in this town . The chapter consists of persons- of quality : it has a right of
chusing the bishop , and it is he who governs- in the absence of the prince . Such a resort as here is of the nobility makes the time pass away very agreeably , but they drink as hard as at Fulde and Wurtzbourg , so thai it looks as if drinking was an insuperable function of tiie ecclesiastical courts . Having some near relations in this town I ? tayed . a whole week , during which time 1 bad , the pleasure of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Humorous Account Of The Tipplers In Germany.
the company rises , 1 wait on the prince to his chamber-door , where he retires , and I am endeavouring to do the same ; but I find myself stopt in the antichamber by the master of the horse and the marshal of the court , who , with large bumpers in their hands , drink the prince ' s health to me , and prosperity for ever to tbe 7 nost laudable chapter of Wurtzbourg . I protest to them that I am the bishop ' s most humble servantand that I have a very great veneration for the
, most laudable chapter , but that to drink their healths would destroy mine , and therefore I beg they would excuse my pledging them ; but I may just as well talk tp the winds , these two healths must be drank or I shall be reckoned no friend to the prince and chapter . Were this all I should come off very well ; but then comes M . deZobel , one of the most intrepid carousel's of the agewiio squeezes me by the
, hand , and with an air and tone of perfect cordiality , says to me , Ton love our prince so well that you cannot refuse drinking to the prosperity of the illustrious family of Houtten . And when he has made this . moving speech , he takes off a monstrous g lass to witness his zeal for the life of his master ; after which an officious Hey duke brings me a
glass , and being infected with the gout that prevails at this court , assures me that the wine cannot possibly do me any harm , because it is the very same that the prince drinks . By a persuasion founded on so just an inference , I have the courage to venture on another glass , which I have . no sooner drank than I stagger and can drink no more , when , in order . complete ! ;/ to finish me , Mr . de Peltesbeim , a kind civil gentlemanbut the best wine-bibber that I knowaccosts
, , jne with a smile , and says , Come , dear Baron , one glass more to our -better acquaintance . I conjure him to give me quarter , but he embraces me , and calls me Heir bruder ( his dear brother . ) Plow can a man withstand such tender compliments ? At last I put myself in a . fit posture to run away ; 1 sneak off , steal down stairs as well as I canand squeeze myself into a sedanwhich carries me homewhere
, , , my servants drag me out like a dead corpse , and fling me on a bed , as if the next thing was to lay me out ; 1 sleep seven or eight hours , awake in a perfect maze , put myself to rights again , and prepare to make fresh visits or to receive them '; but , whichsoever I do , I presently find myself in such a pickle again that 1 cannot walk alone .
There is no such thing as conversation here betwixt one friend and ' another without the bottle ; so that 1 am tempted to think the inhabitants of this city are descended from Sitenus , and that the old sot left them the gift of hard-drinking for a legacy , as St . Hubert bequeathed to his family the power of curing- a frenzy . From Bamberg he writes , There are a good number of the nobility settled in this town . The chapter consists of persons- of quality : it has a right of
chusing the bishop , and it is he who governs- in the absence of the prince . Such a resort as here is of the nobility makes the time pass away very agreeably , but they drink as hard as at Fulde and Wurtzbourg , so thai it looks as if drinking was an insuperable function of tiie ecclesiastical courts . Having some near relations in this town I ? tayed . a whole week , during which time 1 bad , the pleasure of