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Title: Ebrietatis Encomium
or, the Praise of Drunkenness

Author: Boniface Oinophilus
Albert-Henri de Sallengre

Translator: Robert Samber

Release Date: June 21, 2009 [EBook #29188]

Language: English

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This book was originally published in 1714 as "Eloge de l'Yvresse"
by Albert-Henri de Sallengre, and translated in 1723 by Robert Samber
with the present title. The 1812 edition updates the spelling and
punctuation, and omits part of the title page (see Errata), but is
otherwise the same text.

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[Illustration: VIVIMUS DUM BIBIMUS]

_EBRIETATIS ENCOMIUM_:

or, the
PRAISE
of
DRUNKENNESS:

Wherein Is Authentically,
and
Most Evidently Prov