Stipare Bacchum navibus; et domum
Anferre funestis trophæis
Exuvias pretiosiores!’
Coffin’s Campania vindicata, 1712. The force of the reference to England is better understood when it is mentioned that no other nation is alluded to as purchasing the wines of the Champagne.
[304] ] A practice not lost sight of at a later date, to judge from Borachio’s observation, ‘I turn Alicant into Burgundy and sour cider into Champagne of the first growth of France.’ Jephson’s Two Strings to your Bow, act i. sc. 2.
[305] ] The Tatler, No. 131, Feb. 9, 1709.
[306] ] Mrs. Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife, act v. sc. 1, 1718.
[307] ] Gay’s poem On Wine, published in 1708.
[308] ] Gay’s Welcome from Greece.
[309] ] Prior’s Alma, or the Progress of the Mind.