[16] Henry D’Avranches. “Of all the Authors that I have ever yet read, this is the only one that hath attempted to brand the glorious splendour of that _Ale-beloved_ decoction; but observe this fellow, by the perpetuall use of water (which was his accustomed drinke) he fell into such convulsions and lethargick diseases, that he remained in opinion a dead man; however, the knowing Physicians of that time, by the frequent and inward application of _Ale_, not onely recouvered him to his pristine state of health, but also enabled him in body and braine for the future, that he became famous in his writings, which for the most part were afterwards spent with most _Aleoquent_ and _Alaborate_ commendation of that admired and most superexcellent Imbrewage.” “Some there are,” he says, “that affirme that Ale was first invened by _Alexander the Great_, and that in his conquests this liquor did infuse such vigour and valour into his souldiers. Others say that famous Physician of Piemont (named _Don Alexis_) was the founder of it. But it is knowne that it was of that singular use in the time of the _Saxons_ that none were allowed to brewe it but such whose places and qualities were most _Eminent_, insomuch that we finde that one of them had the credit to give the name of a _Saxon_ Prince, who in honour of that rare quality, he called _Alle_. Some _ale_adge that it being our drinke when our land was called _Albion_, that it had the name of the countrey; _Twiscus_ in his _Euphorbinum_ will have it from _Albanta_ or _Epirus_, _Wolfgang Plashendorph_ of _Gustenburg_, saies that _Alecto_ (one of the three furies) gave the receipt of it to _Albumazar_, a Magician, and he (having _Aliance_ {43} with _Aladine_, the Soldan at _Aleppo_) first brew’d it there, whereto may be _Aleuded_, the story how _Alphonsus_ of _Scicily_, sent it from thence to the battell of _Alcazar_. My Authour is of Anaxagoras’ opinion, that _Ale_ is to be held in high price for the nutritive substance that it is indued withall, and how precious a nurse it is in generall to Mankinde.