Doctor M. Luther said: "If the German country did not have so much silk and so much spice, there would be no danger, and Germany would be much richer than it is. Item: We could well do without barley and drink water instead of beer; although the young journeymen have no joy at all without beer. For gambling does not make people happy, nor does booing make people happy. That's why they drink before they drink. As it was proved at the princely camp in Torgau, they didn't drink whole and half, but one had to give the other half a pint of StübichensKandeln. That is what they called a good drink. Sic inventa lege, inventa est et fraus legis.
M. Georgius Spalatinus had once said to Prince Frederick of Saxony's court:
that Cornelius Tacitus wrote that among the ancient Germans it was no disgrace to drink day and night. Now a nobleman heard this, and asked him how old this was, since it was written? When he answered, "It is about fifteen hundred years old. Then the nobleman said, "O dear sir, since drinking to the full is an old and honest custom, let's not stop it now.
From guest meals.
Plutarchus writes in his table speeches: It must be with a table company as with the alphabet. Some must make a sound, such are the landlords, teachers, priests. Others must be only half-loud, all kinds of honest people. But the young must be silent and listen alone.