Can you tell pork from veal in the dark? or distinguish Sherris from pure Malaga?

3, Falstaff speaks of sherris sack; and Dr Johnson supposes the fat knight's admired potation was what we now call sherry, which he says is drunk with sugar.

For your part, Bustamente, for that you have Done heretofore more for your Countryes love, You shall not doubt of honourable tryall, Which in the Court of warre shalbe determind, At Sherris, whitherward you instantly Shall with a guard be sent.

I hope you'le not deny my company To waite on you to Sherris? Jo.

Commend me to them, tell them & my frends That if I be, as I suspect I shalbe, At Sherris putt to death, I dyed a Christian soldier, No way, I hope, offending my iust King Nor my religion, but the Spanish lawes.

In my Caroach You shall with mee to Sherris, 3 leagues off, Where the Lords sitt to-morrow: there you must answer This most unbrotherly accusation.

Y'are bound to appeare at Sherris, sir; And you were best not fayle.

Ile to Sherris presently.

BARRY CORNWALL'S "EPISTLE TO CHARLES LAMB; ON HIS EMANCIPATION FROM CLERKSHIP" (WRITTEN OVER A FLASK OF SHERRIS) FROM ENGLISH SONGS (See Letter 551, page 952)

" By this time the cold capon and the venison pasty, as well as the "little tiny kickshaws," together with a gallon of "good sherris-sack," had been considerably reduced by the united efforts of the squire, the famished hunter, and those below the salt.

Our grandfathers and their progenitors were well convinced that a good cup of "sherris-sack" comforted the heart, and aided digestion; and why the same opinion should not govern us, I must leave to the dieteticians to decide.

Procter addressed to Lamb some excellent lines "Over a Flask of Sherris," which were printed in the London Magazine, 1825, and again in English Songs, 1832.