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Humorous Account Of The Tipplers In Germany.
drinkino * every day with one of my cousins , out of a monstrous goblet of solid gold , weighing to the value of a thousand ducats * . You cannot imagine how well the wine went down out of a cup of that value . I heartily wished that my cousin would have dealt by me as Joseph did by Benjamin , by putting the cup in my portmanteauprovided he Would not have sent to fetch me back again
, , as the governor of Egypt did his brother ; but this was what my dear cousin did not think fit to do . He made me drink my skinful of wine , and only wished me my pockets full of gold . From Heidelberg he says , I shall not detain you with a -particular description of the famous tun f , Misson having g iven a more exact description of that than of many towns which he passed through . The Elector John
William , the predecessor of the present elector , gave a companion to this tun , which , indeed , is not so large , but much more adorned . They are both full of wine . When I was at the Palatine court the elector asked me at table , whether I had seen the great tun ; on my . saying that I had not , the prince , the most gracious sovereign in the worldtold me I should go along with him to see it . He made a proposal
, to the princess his daughter , who was lately married to the hereditary Prince of Sultzbacb , to go thither after dinner , which she accepted . The trumpets led the way , and the court followed in great ceremony ; when we had mounted the platform on the top of the tun ,
and which is railed round , sufficient to contain forty people and more , the elector did me the honour to drink to me out of the Wilkom , a silver gilt cup of a large dimension . He took it off clean at one draught , and having caused it to be filled again , sent it to me by a page . Good manners , and the respect I owed to the elector ' s commands , not permitting me to refuse the cup , I begged earnestly that he would suffer me to drink it off at several draughtswhich was
, indulged me ; and the elector turning round to speak to the ladies , I took the opportunity and made no scruple to deceive him , for I threw three-fourths of the wine over the rail , and made shift to sip flff the rest . I was happy to think that I had so cunningly deceived him . Then several other glasses went round , and the ladies wet their lips , which was the thing that effectually contributed to demolish
me . 1 was one of the first that was overpowered : I felt the beginnings of those convulsive motions that threatened me if I drank any more , therefore I sneak'd off , and made the best of my way down from the platform . I was endeavouring to get out of the vault , but was stopped at the door by two of the elector ' s body-guard , who , with their carbines crossing , each othercriedStandthere ' s no coming
, , , this way . I conjured them to let me pass , and told them I had veiy important reasons for my departure ; but I might as well have talked to the wind . I found ' myself in a dreadful situation ; to go again up to the head of the tun was death ; what would become of me I could
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Humorous Account Of The Tipplers In Germany.
drinkino * every day with one of my cousins , out of a monstrous goblet of solid gold , weighing to the value of a thousand ducats * . You cannot imagine how well the wine went down out of a cup of that value . I heartily wished that my cousin would have dealt by me as Joseph did by Benjamin , by putting the cup in my portmanteauprovided he Would not have sent to fetch me back again
, , as the governor of Egypt did his brother ; but this was what my dear cousin did not think fit to do . He made me drink my skinful of wine , and only wished me my pockets full of gold . From Heidelberg he says , I shall not detain you with a -particular description of the famous tun f , Misson having g iven a more exact description of that than of many towns which he passed through . The Elector John
William , the predecessor of the present elector , gave a companion to this tun , which , indeed , is not so large , but much more adorned . They are both full of wine . When I was at the Palatine court the elector asked me at table , whether I had seen the great tun ; on my . saying that I had not , the prince , the most gracious sovereign in the worldtold me I should go along with him to see it . He made a proposal
, to the princess his daughter , who was lately married to the hereditary Prince of Sultzbacb , to go thither after dinner , which she accepted . The trumpets led the way , and the court followed in great ceremony ; when we had mounted the platform on the top of the tun ,
and which is railed round , sufficient to contain forty people and more , the elector did me the honour to drink to me out of the Wilkom , a silver gilt cup of a large dimension . He took it off clean at one draught , and having caused it to be filled again , sent it to me by a page . Good manners , and the respect I owed to the elector ' s commands , not permitting me to refuse the cup , I begged earnestly that he would suffer me to drink it off at several draughtswhich was
, indulged me ; and the elector turning round to speak to the ladies , I took the opportunity and made no scruple to deceive him , for I threw three-fourths of the wine over the rail , and made shift to sip flff the rest . I was happy to think that I had so cunningly deceived him . Then several other glasses went round , and the ladies wet their lips , which was the thing that effectually contributed to demolish
me . 1 was one of the first that was overpowered : I felt the beginnings of those convulsive motions that threatened me if I drank any more , therefore I sneak'd off , and made the best of my way down from the platform . I was endeavouring to get out of the vault , but was stopped at the door by two of the elector ' s body-guard , who , with their carbines crossing , each othercriedStandthere ' s no coming
, , , this way . I conjured them to let me pass , and told them I had veiy important reasons for my departure ; but I might as well have talked to the wind . I found ' myself in a dreadful situation ; to go again up to the head of the tun was death ; what would become of me I could