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Identifier: dutchnewyork01sing (find matches)
Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in all the plays of the period. These inns wereoften kept by landlords of questionable honesty, whomore than once were put in the stocks; but their innswere always scrupulously clean. The hostess saw toit that everything shone brightly, from the cuspidorto the grill, and the tiles on the floor were as cleanas the plate that was used at table; even the dice werebrightly polished. In the country, however, inns were not quite so wellkept. One of these is described in Van SautensLight Shoiver. He says that it was ten times colderinside than outside; that one man had to sit on apail and another on a turf basket, and that a lump ofclay was used as a candle-holder. He adds that ablind horse could not do any damage inside. There ishardly one amongst the hundreds of comedies andfarces of the Seventeenth Century in which the most dis-gusting scenes of drunkenness and vice are not depicted.Usually, when our staid burghers took wine, they drankthree glasses. Such was the advice of Bernagin in his
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■:7 U4 -J CO -n a: w Z ai w « h > < H TAVERNS AND EXCISE LAWS 267 Wedding-Contractor (1685). The first glass, he said,was for health, the second for taste, and the third forsleep; any more after that might serve as recreation. There were innumerable kinds of wine, beer, and hot drinks that were used in Holland in the Seven-teenth Century. In Godewycks White Breads Chil-dren, a young blade says: Then I came to the Lion; the hostess said hello Reel!run and give the gentleman a chair with a cushion. Whatwill the gentleman drink? We have some good winesclear in the glass and fine in colour. Do you like VindAnjou, good Bacherach, Neuren, or Vin du Court; ordo you like Manebach ? Then when I go to the Horse— it is Sir! go into the room, we have Dele wine;there s none nicer. Or do you like Vin dAy, or beauti-ful Muscadel wine? I will go into the cellar and opena barrel. We have Mentser wine, Elsasger and Rin-chouwers; they are silvery fine, much better than Pictouwine. Do you like

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