pledg

If Meekneſs, and Patience, Chaſity and Temperance, the Fear of God and true Religion be uncivil and ungenteel, we will be yet more uncivil and ungenteel ; and I ſhould as ſoon think it rude and clowniſh not to pledg one who drank to me in rank Poiſon, as that it is any want of good Breeding and genteel Carriage, to be wiſer and more ſober than the reſt of the World.