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/Champagne in England./

The strong and foaming wine of the Champagne forbidden his troops by Henry V.--The English carrying off wine when evacuating Reims on the approach of Jeanne Darc--A legend of the siege of Epernay--Henry VIII. and his vineyard at Ay--Louis XIV.'s present of Champagne to Charles II.--The courtiers of the Merry Monarch retain the taste for French wine acquired in exile--St. Evremond makes the Champagne flute the glass of fashion--Still Champagne quaffed by the beaux of the Mall and the rakes of the Mulberry Gardens--It inspires the poets and dramatists of the Restoration--Is drank by James II. and William III.--The advent of sparkling Champagne in England--Farquhar's _Love and a Bottle_--Mockmode the Country Squire and the witty liquor--Champagne the source of wit--Port-wine and war combine against it, but it helps Marlborough's downfall--Coffin's poetical invitation to the English on the return of peace--A fraternity of chemical operators who draw Champagne from an apple--The influence of Champagne in the Augustan age of English literature--Extolled by Gay and Prior--Shenstone's verses at an inn--Renders Vanbrugh's comedies lighter than his edifices--Swift preaches temperance in Champagne to Bolingbroke--Champagne the most fashionable wine of the eighteenth century--Bertin du Rocheret sends it in cask and bottle to the King's wine-merchant--Champagne at Vauxhall in Horace Walpole's day--Old Q. gets Champagne from M. de Puissieux--Lady Mary's Champagne and chicken--Champagne plays its part at masquerades and bacchanalian suppers--Becomes the beverage of the ultra-fashionables above and below stairs--Figures in the comedies of Foote, Garrick, Coleman, and Holcroft--Champagne and real pain--Sir Edward Barry's learned remarks on Champagne--Pitt and Dundas drunk on Jenkinson's Champagne--Fox and the Champagne from Brooks's--Champagne smuggled from Jersey--Grown in England--Experiences of a traveller in the Champagne trade in England at the close of the century--Sillery the favourite wine--Nelson and the 'fair Emma' under the influence of Champagne--The Prince Regent's partiality for Champagne punch--Brummell's Champagne blacking--The Duke of Clarence overcome by Champagne--Curran and Canning on the wine--Henderson's praise of Sillery--Tom Moore's summer fête inspired by Pink Champagne--Scott's Muse dips her wing in Champagne--Byron's sparkling metaphors--A joint-stock poem in praise of Pink Champagne--The wheels of social life in England oiled by Champagne--It flows at public banquets and inaugurations--Plays its

## part in the City, on the Turf, and in the theatrical world--Imparts

a charm to the dinners of Belgravia and the suppers of Bohemia--Champagne the ladies' wine _par excellence_--Its influence as a matrimonial agent--'O the wildfire wine of France!' 83

/Part II./