Show ala anite between my visit to trinity library An donoto beonde to the museum I went to luncheon with rny friend at his rooms in trinity on our way from be gate to tho quadrangle from which hii stairway ascended we pasted the buttery hatch and my host pausing a mo mant said to a man in attendance send a stoup of ale and a manchet to my room gleaso and was going on when he checked himself and hia no bend a plate of ale the term flutur alch may possibly need explanation to some of my readers it means the hatch or half door of the buttery there are old houses in rural new england in which such half doors or hatches may yet bo found their to close the door against entrance ent ranco by ordinary methods and yet to permit speech between those who are within and choso who are without to get over the batch was to effect an irregular and indecorous entrance shakespeare makes reply to aleen elinor when she says that she is his grandam madam by chance but truth what though something about a little from the right in at the window or else oer the the buttery hatch is much he game as the buttery bar which the saucy maria mentions in twelfth night when meaning to tell sir andrew Ague cheek that liu hand i dry she says I pray yuu bring your kind to alie bul iery bar and let it drink the modern bar as in bar boim is a remnant of the buttery bar and its name is a mere abbreviation of that of the place where ale and wine bied to be served out in great houses of old the term plate as applied to ale was my hot in formed roe in constant use to mean a vessel of two quarts ae were ordered a quart pot would plate a great tankard contains two quarts although lie waa a man well up in all such questions he said that constantly as the word was so used and had been used from time immemorial no one knew why two quarts of ale was called a plue it occurred to i ie that possibly the word was used because the large tankard hafl from its size brought on a salver of silver or pewter and he was kind enough to receive my hasty conjecture with favor llo this might be the ale brewed by the college wa excellent and I enjoyed it so much and in his judgment it would seem with such discrimination tint lie declared I should have gomo audit el this ale peculiar to trinity and one oatlie privileges of a fellow of trinity is that he is entitled to six dozen of it every year it has ftp name from being served to the farmers and others who are tenants of the college when they come to the audit of accounts and the payment of rent the farmers ho told me preferred it to any wine that could be given them and well they might do so for en a bottles being brought and broached I found eliat such a product of malt and hops had never passed my lips before it was as mighty as that which bedrio found at Torquil stone as clear as crystal and had a mingled richness and delicacy ot flavor as superior to that of tho best brewage I biad ever before tasted as that of chateau is to ordinary oid inary sauterne it would have justified eulogy of the host in th beaux stratagem As smooth as oil sweet as milk plear as amor and strong ai brandy fancy it burgundy Burgun ly only fancy it andt is worth ten shillings aquart As I absorbed I I began to think hat it n i J ul cause they who dri think ale that produces newtons andela cau lays afterwards found that like some of the more delicate kinds of wine and finer growths of tea it was somewhat impaired by transportation across the ocean even alien it was allowed a fortnights fort nights quiet to recover from the effects of the voy age and yet perhaps it rather owed bome loss of its excellence to the absence of the circumstances under which I first made its acquaintance those still book lined chamber the very air of which seemed saturated with the aroma of elegant scholarship that noble old quadrangle upon which they opened and the mingling of common sense wit and learning in the discussion of subjects in which we had both been long interested with which my host had before beguiled our walk and then seasoned our repast |