A character in Crabbe’s Borough; a great drunkard, who died in his cups.
“‘Come, fill my glass.ʹ He took it and he went” (i.e. died).
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Letter xvi.
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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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