Note 241 — Nick and Froth; or The Good-fellows Complaint for want of full Measure.

[4.] Some Gentlemen coming into a Tavern, whose Sign was the Moon, (where for a Fancy they sold nothing but Claret, for which they were very noted, and had great Custom) called for a bottle of Sack; whereupon the Drawer told them they had none: At which, they, not a little admiring,241 as not knowing the Humour, asked the Drawer the reason, who told them, The Man in the Moon drinks Claret.242 The Fancy of which pleased them so that they said they were resolved to be sociable, and so called for each Man his Bottle to drink their Brothers Health in the Moon.