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The Dying Groans of Sir John Barleycorn choose

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[UK] Dying Groans of Sir John Barleycorn 2: My last wishes and dying words; with my kind caution to my beloved friends and companions the innumerable tribe of Barley-bibbers.
at barley, n.1
[UK] Dying Groans of Sir John Barleycorn 5: But of them all, [wives] Gills was chief instructor, what to drink, and how to raise the coin for the other cooler.
at cooler, n.
[UK] Dying Groans of Sir John Barleycorn 4: In company with good wife’s member-mugs, where I must stand in the stink until starved as dead as a doornail.
at member mug (n.) under member, n.1
[UK] Dying Groans of Sir John Barleycorn 5: Even for the tippling entisment wherewith thou led my spouse Margaret Gills the Bottle-sucker, astray.
at tipple, n.
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