In the same books occurs the following curious satire:--‘There is now profest an eighth liberal art or science, called _Ars Bibendi_, _i.e._ the Art of Drinking. The students or professors thereof call a greene garland, or painted hoope hang’d out, a _colledge_, a sign where there is lodging, man’s-meate, and horse-meate, an _inne of court_, an _hall_ or an _hostle_, where nothing is sold but ale and tobacco, a _grammar schoole_; a red or a blue lattice, that they terme _a free schoole_ for all comers.... The bookes which they studdy, and whose leaves they so often turne over are for the most part three of the old translation and three of the new. Those of the old translation--1, The Tankard; 2, The Black Jacke; 3, The Quart-Pot, Rib’d, or Thorondell. Those of the new be these: 1, The Jugge; 2, The Beaker; 3, The Double or Single Can, or Black Pot.’ The same author gives a list of slang phrases then in use, signifying the being intoxicated. ‘He is foxt, hee is flawed, he is flustered, hee is suttle, cupshot, he hath seene the French king, he hath swallowed an havie or a taverne-token, hee hath whipt the cat, he hath been at the scriveners, and learn’d to make indentures, hee hath bit his grannam, or is bit by a barne-weesell,’ &c. In another of his productions, _Shipwreck by Drink_, he describes a drunken scene which took place in a house that he was passing in which a feast was being held:-- In the height of their carousing, all their brains Warmed with the heat of wine. And a marvellous piece of description it is. The guests imagine themselves to be rocked in a vessel during storm, climb bedposts as though they were masts, turn out the furniture as if casting ship-lading overboard; another bestrides his fellow to escape, Arion-like, on the dolphin’s back. The staff of the constable who enters is considered to be Neptune’s trident, and so forth. But enough of this author. The habits of his time had evidently impressed him, and he constantly revives his impression. But it was no self-formed phantom. Abundance of corroboration is forthcoming. A political economist of the same date (1627) remarks, ‘This most monstrous vice is thus defined:--“Drunkenness is the privation of orderly motion and understanding.” ... But I need not stand much about the definition of drunkenness, for, with grief I speak it, the taverns, ale-houses, and the very streets are so full of drunkards in all parts of this kingdom, that by the sight of them it is better known what this detestable and odious vice is than by any definition whatsoever.’[130] Regarding it then as established, that the intemperance of the times of Elizabeth and James I. was still perpetuated, it is natural to inquire to what it is to be attributed. (1) _The attractiveness of the drinks themselves_, a constant factor in all periods. Of wines, Canary and sack were in most demand, though these were constantly terms indifferently used; thus,--