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He made it a rule to regale even the poorest beggar with wine and hippocrass.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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"poudered and lesed;" an immense number of young kids and venison-pasties were consumed, besides "great plenty of divers sorts of wine, and two hogsheads of hippocrass."
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Various 1836
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