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is no action save upon a balance of considerations, and there can be no right drinking save upon a most scrupulous discrimination in the matter of glasses. For right drinking, being as it were a tourney of palatal sensations, is largely dependent upon its accessories, and the most important of these is the vehicle by whose means the tourney is accomplished.

Now, of glasses there be three kinds: the tinted or coloured, the plain, and that which is known generally as cut; and there be some wines that will shine with all, there be some that pair well with two, others there be that will mate with one alone. And