A health to all vintners, beer-brewers and ale-tonners, tapsters, bezlors, carrowsers, and wine-bibbers, bench-whistlers, lick-wimbles, down-right drunkards, pety drunkards; Bacchus boyes, roaring-boyes, Bachanalians, taverne antients, captaine swaggeters, foxcatchers, pot and halfe-pot men, quart, pint halfe pint men, short winded glasse-men, and in generall, to all and every privie drunkard, halfe-pot companion, indenturians, &c. And to all other good fellowes of this our fraternitie, whom these presents may concerne, greeting.

Title: A health to all vintners, beer-brewers and ale-tonners, tapsters, bezlors, carrowsers, and wine-bibbers, bench-whistlers, lick-wimbles, down-right drunkards, pety drunkards; Bacchus boyes, roaring-boyes, Bachanalians, taverne antients, captaine swaggeters, foxcatchers, pot and halfe-pot men, quart, pint halfe pint men, short winded glasse-men, and in generall, to all and every privie drunkard, halfe-pot companion, indenturians, &c. And to all other good fellowes of this our fraternitie, whom these presents may concerne, greeting.
Publication: London :: printed for Thomas Bates,; [1642?]
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Subject terms: Drinking of alcoholic beveridges -- Humor -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "A health to all vintners, beer-brewers and ale-tonners, tapsters, bezlors, carrowsers, and wine-bibbers, bench-whistlers, lick-wimbles, down-right drunkards, pety drunkards; Bacchus boyes, roaring-boyes, Bachanalians, taverne antients, captaine swaggeters, foxcatchers, pot and halfe-pot men, quart, pint halfe pint men, short winded glasse-men, and in generall, to all and every privie drunkard, halfe-pot companion, indenturians, &c. And to all other good fellowes of this our fraternitie, whom these presents may concerne, greeting." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86154.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.

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