is the ale of the Dagger; a celebrated ordinary in Holborn.
“My lawyer’s clerk I lighted on last night
In Holborn, at the Dagger.”
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Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, i. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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