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Port Wine

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Lord Pembroke’s port wine. This renowned wine is thus made—

27 gallons of rough cider,

To make a hogs-head of port.

13 gallons of Bone Carlo wine,

3 gallons of brandy.

 

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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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Porch (The)
Porcupine
Porcus
Porcus Literarum
Pork! Pork!
Pork, Pig
Porphyrion
Porridge
Port
Port Royal Society
Port Wine
Porte (The)
Porteous Riot
Portia
Portland Stone
Portland Vase
Portmanteau Word (A)
Portobello Arms
Portsoken Ward (London)
Portuguese
Poser