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‘Aqua Vitae sloeth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it cutteth flegme, it abandoneth melancholy, it relisheth the hart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickeneth the spirites. Truly it is a soveraigne liquor, if it be orderly taken.’ Richard Stanihurst (1577-1618), Dubliner and alchemist to Philip II of Spain ‘Whiskey, Irish for droplets of pure pleasure.’ WB Yeats