Percival Leigh

“ A good Story from the Cooper, of a Visiter that would needs take a Specimen of the Mildew away, and put it in his Hat, and with the Moisture of his Head, it melted and blackened his Face, and served him right, that—like more than enough Sight-Seers—could not keep his Hands from Picking. To several Vaults, and tasted Wine in each; all very vast, but the East Vault the biggest, and do contain more thousand Pipes, and cover more Acres than I doubt, by Reason of the Wine I drunk, I can remember. ”

“ Goodfellowe did see them into two Cabs, and I home on Foot—I fear not very straight—and my Wife wondering at the Redness of my Nose. Good Lack, to fee the Quantity of Goods and Wine in the Docks; and to think what a great and mighty Nation we are, and what Oceans of Liquor we do swill and guzzle! ”

“ Katherine's Dock, and down to the Vault, where a Cooper forthwith did wait on us with a Couple of Glasses, and gave each Man a flat Stick with a Lamp at the farther End, to see our Way, and we looked like Goblins with Torches in a Pantomime. The Vault almost quite dark, only lighted by Sconces from the Roof, and the farthest Sconce looking Half-a-Mile off, and all this Space full of Barrels of Wine! The Roof supported by Rows of Columns; and the Vault altogether like the Crypt of a Cathedral, but 20 times as big, and more than 20 sweeter ”