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Show Gueen Bess Liked Her Ale Strong. What the London Chronicle calls j Mr. Bryan's "teetotal hospitality" j would nerer have done for Queen Bess. ', For wherver Elizabeth went there ale j had to go also strong ale. Great i v ere the trials of her host, the earl of : Leicester. is expressed in a lettpr from j Hatfield to Lore Rurteigh: "There is j rot one drop of good drink for her j here. We were fain to send to lon- j don ar.,1 Keuilwortb and divers other 1 . twc'-s win re ale was: her own beer I j w.i.a io strong as there was no man j able to drink It." And one quart of this "excellenl wash" of good strong ale for breakfast, we are told, put the queen in good spirits for the start of the day's work. |