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...case. Mererie was forced to leave France after the proclamation of Louis XIV that all silver plates should be melted for the state treasury, and with a considerable number of his fellow-craftsmen, came to England, where he was soon after named Royal Goldsmith. A large "lion" tankard, bearing the arms of the City of London, is another conspicuous piece, while a silver seal-box, containing the wax seal of the first ruling member of the House of Hanover is of distinct historical value. The rest of the collection consists of delicately worked taper-sticks, a "humpty-dumpty" pitcher...
...four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished...
...with the newly-invented fork, and in exasperation flings the fork across the room. With his large hand he dips up an eel from its greasy dish and conveys it drippingly to his mouth. He smacks his lips loudly, and washes the eel down with a deep tankard of Canary. . . . "Ben sleeps heavily, and awakes the next morning in a dripping sweat, but with brave notions. . . . He always writes under these conditions. His drunken, salty sweat seems to bring him inspiration." Thus Author Steele in what he calls a "poetically [in the Aristotelian sense] true conception" of Ben Jonson. There...
...only starters. James took the lead, and kept in advance until the end of the second, when he was passed by Lowell, who won the race in 5 min 2 1-2 sec. Mr. Lowell then mounted the judges stand and after receiving his prize a magnificent silver tankard leaped from the stand to the ground, and disappeared in the crowd amidst loud shouts of applause...
While smiles widened, he quaffed a tankard of palate-puckering ale. Emerging from the foam he cried: "This is indeed a 'bitter' day for the Government...