Some of the puzzle jugs bear interesting doggerel lines upon them. One runs—
“What though I’m common and well known
To almost every one in town?
My purse to sixpence if you will
That if you drink you some do spill.”
Not a very good recommendation for a jug, but a very profitable alehouse amusement from mine host’s point of view.
Another bears the lines—
“In this jug there is good liquor,
Fit for either priest or vicar;
But to drink and not to spill