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 90 Hijlory of T>omeJlic Manners giving to drink, who holds one of the fame defcription of drinking cups which were fo popular at an earlier period among the Anglo-Saxons (fee our cut No, 6i). He holds in the left hand the jug, which had now become the ufual velfel for carrying the liquor in any quantity. In cur cut No. 62, furnilhed by the fame manufcript as the preceding, the fervant is taking the jug of liquor from the barrel. Our next cut. No. 63, alfo taken from the Cambridge MS., reprefents feveral forms of veffels for the table. Some of thefe are new to us 3 and they are on the whole more elegant than moft of the forms we meet with in common pictures. Wine appears to have been now more frequently ufed than among the Anglo- Saxons. Neckam, in the latter part of the twelfth century, has given us a rather play- ful enumeration of the qualities of good wine ; which he fays fliould be as clear as the tears of a penitent, fo that a man may fee diftin6tly to the bottom of his glafs 3 its colour " fliould reprefent the greennefs of a buffalo's horn 5 when drunk, it fliould defcend inipetuouily like thunder, fweet-tafted as an almond, creeping like a fquirrel, leaping like a roe- buck, ftrong like the building of a Ciftercian monaftery, glittering like a fpark of fire, fubtle as the logic of the fchools of Paris, delicate as fine filk. No. 63. Anglo-Norman Pottery.