He was a notable squeeze-grape, a huge quaffer, his glasse should bee alway brim-full, and he would vp with it de profundis; his vsuall draught was a large pint & a halfe: and hauing drunke liberally before he came to the rack, thinkā£ing that would haue made him lesse sensible of his paine, he confest at the first, whatsoeuer they would haue him.
Source: wiktionary