“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think.”
— A.E. Housman, book A Shropshire Lad
No. 62, st. 2.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
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