Negus is a drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.
According to Malone (Life of Dryden, Prose Work. i - p. 484) this drink was invented in the early 18th Century by Col. Francis Negus[1] (d.1732), a British courtier (commissioner for executing the office of Master of the Horse from 1717 to 1727, then Master of the Buckhounds).
James Boswell refers to it repeatedly in his London Journal. Negus is also referred to in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, when Jane drinks it on arrival at Thornfield Hall.
The Sorrows of Werter/Goethe - "I had procured her some oranges from the sideboard, where they were making negus ..."
According to Malone (Life of Dryden, Prose Work. i - p. 484) this drink was invented in the early 18th Century by Col. Francis Negus[1] (d.1732), a British courtier (commissioner for executing the office of Master of the Horse from 1717 to 1727, then Master of the Buckhounds).
James Boswell refers to it repeatedly in his London Journal. Negus is also referred to in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, when Jane drinks it on arrival at Thornfield Hall.
The Sorrows of Werter/Goethe - "I had procured her some oranges from the sideboard, where they were making negus ..."
