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Definition of Metheglins
1. metheglin [n] - See also: metheglin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metheglins
Literary usage of Metheglins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1875)
"Sounds, some metheglins here. WID. What does he call for Ì JAR. ... Eggs, man !
some metheglins, the wine of Wales. JAR. Troth, sir, here's none i' th' ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley, Richard Morris (1875)
"Sounds, some metheglins here. . - WlD. What does he call for ? JAR. Here are some
eggs for you, ... Eggs, man ! some metheglins, the wine of Wales. JAR. ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley, Richard Morris (1875)
"Eggs, man ! some metheglins, the wine of Wales. JAR. Troth, sir, here's none i'
th' house: pray, make a virtue of necessity, and drink to her in this glass ..."
4. Modern Essays by Christopher Morley (1921)
"There was a time, I confess, and it is within the memory of some of us, when,
like Falstaff, he was given to "taverns and sack and wine and metheglins, ..."
5. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Evangeline Maria O'Connor (1901)
"metheglins, mead, a fermented dish of honey and water; V. v. 162. Mistress, the
ordinary title of an unmarried gentlewoman; I. i. 48. ..."
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