There's always been some question about Mr. Nash and his drinking. He talks about people drinking in nearly every story, and several times you get the impression that he's joining in, though he does actually say in only one tale (that I can think of) he doesn't drink himself. I think he maybe didn't drink at one time but did drink at other times. There's a picture of him in Life (Don will correct me if I'm wrong on the magazine) holding what's obviously a cocktail of some kind in his hand.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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