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Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England

Note 202 — Chapter X · (continued 2)

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Viz. ‘now retired into harbour, after the tempests that had long agitated his society.’ So Scriblerus. But the learned Scipio Maffei understands it of a certain wine called Port from Oporto, a city of Portugal, of which this professor invited him to drink abundantly. Scip. Maff. de compotationibus Academicis.

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