For a child to make the beginning of his dinner drink, is a good way to
breed him up to drunkenness. Especially, if he take it for wanton
custom, and not for necessity of thirst. It is dishonest to be suffered,
and annoysome to the health of the body of a child.
Let not a child drink after he hath supped hot broth, immediately upon
it; much less, if he have been fed with milk.
Let not a child drink above twice or thrice at the most at one meal, and
that gently, and not without reason: who bestoweth wine and beer on his
child beyond reason, deformeth and abuseth him more by dishonouring his
reason, and provoking him to an unreasonable diet.