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Samuel Rowlands, in his “Hvmors Looking Glasse,” 1608 (Hunterian Club reprint, p. 21) alludes to a like custom—
They drinke to healthes deuoutly on their knees. Also in Dekker's “Honest Whore” (Dodsley's O. P., ed. 1825, vol. III., p. 402); and in Nash's “Summer's Last Will and Testament” (Dodsley's O. P., ed. 1825, vol. IX., p. 50.)