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Monday, August 02, 2004

A walking swill-bowl?!


The Curiosities of Ale and Beer by John Bickerdyke

"A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the spoil of civility, his own shame, his children's curse, his neighbour's scoff, the alehouse man's benefactor, the devil's drudge, a walking swill-bowl, the picture of a beast, and monster of a man" - a Mr.Dod 16th(?)C


A 16th Century quote in a 20th Century edition of a 19th Century book by a man whose name seems suspiciously unlikely. Found it at Mainly Books and giving it to a good friend to whom I have a lifelong debt for ramming a car with another car into the side of his house when we were neighbours. He'll get it right after I've done a bit more scanning and found the incantation which brings Kalgoorlie Bitter back from the grave. sed non incorpore...

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