Note 407 — SCENE III.
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Peter-sameene] One of the several disguises under which the word Pedro-Ximenes is found in our early writers. “The Pedro-Ximenes ... receives its name from a grape which is said to have been imported from the banks of the Rhine by an individual called Pedro Simon (corrupted to Ximen, or Ximenes), and is one of the richest and most delicate of the Malaga wines, resembling very much the malmsey of Paxarete.” Henderson’s Hist. of Anc. and Mod. Wines, p. 193.