Excerpt from Cups and Their Customs We have selected a sprig of Borage for our frontispiece, by reason of the usefulness of that pleasant herb in the fiavouring of cups. Else where than in England, plants for flavouring are accounted of rare virtue. So much are they esteemed in the East, that an anti-brahminical writer, showing the worthlessness of Hindu superstitions, says, They command you to cut down a living and sweet basil-plant, that you may crown a lifeless stone. Our use of flavour ing-herbs is the reverse of this justly condemned one; for we crop them that hearts may be warmed and life lengthened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.