The Vintner's Guide.

The Flower her emerald throne displays: Bring wine that has the ruby's blaze Again is closed the vintner's store, "Open, Thou Opener of the door!"[20] While smiles on us the season's boon, I marvel that they close so soon.

See this head, devout submission: bricks at many a vintner's door: If my foe these words misconstrue"Bricks and head!"Say nothing more.

Where is the fire of Sinäi, where is the meeting place? Here jointly are the wine-filled cup, the rose, the minstrel; yet While we lack love, no bliss is here: where can my Loved be met? Of the Shaikh's cell my heart has tired, and of the convent bare: Where is my friend, the Christian's child, the vintner's mansion, where?

The Boares head is so huge that a Vintner but drawing that picture and hanging it up for a Signe it fell down and broke him.

Green ivy-bushes at the vintner's doors He withers, and devoureth all their sap.

Venison be venenum to thee: and may that vintner have the plague in his house that sells a drop of claret to kill the poison of it!

The grate of a vintner was no doubt what is often termed in old writers the red lattice, lettice, or chequers, painted at the doors of vintners, and still preserved at almost every public-house.

Or Gulono the gutty serjeant, or Delphino the vintner, or else I know you not; for these are all my acquaintance.

Our birthright, good brother; this town craves maintenance; silk stockings must be had, and we would be loth our heritage should be arraigned at the vintner's bar, and so condemned to the vintner's box.

Our birthright, good brother; this town craves maintenance; silk stockings must be had, and we would be loth our heritage should be arraigned at the vintner's bar, and so condemned to the vintner's box.

[Here they draw, WENTLOE and BARTLEY come in, and the two vintner's boys with clubs.

My old master kept a good house, and twenty or thirty tall sword-and-buckler men about him, and i'faith his son differs not much, he will have metal too; though he hath not store of cutler's blades, he will have plenty of vintner's pots.

retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler^; pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus^; sutler^, vivandiere^; costerman^, costermonger^; tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner. money broker, money changer, money lender; cambist^, usurer, moneyer^, banker.

If the vintner's nose be at door, it is a sign sufficient, but the absence of this is supplied by the ivy-bush: the rooms are ill breathed like the drinkers that have been washed well over night, and are smelt-to fasting next morning; not furnished with beds apt to be defiled, but more necessary implements, stools, table, and a chamber-pot.

His daughter Judith married to Thomas Quinney, a vintner, 1616; his wife died 1623; last descendant, Lady Bernard, died 1670.

The first house was that of a vintner; and the lower part of the premisesthe cellars and vaultswere filled with wine and spirits.

The Vintner's Guide.

The Vintner's Guide.

Our major domo under the influence of the coin, or what he had procured at the vintner's in exchange therefor, grew a bit playful.

He was the son of a London vintner, and was in his youth in the service of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, one of the sons of Edward III.

The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.

The Chairman at a Quarter Sessions should inform the Country, that the Vintner who mixes Wine to his Customers, shall (upon proof that the Drinker thereof died within a Year and a Day after taking it) be deemed guilty of Wilful Murder: and the Jury shall be instructed to enquire and present such Delinquents accordingly.

The children of those convicted and punished were sent into exile; their goods were confiscated; plowman and vintner failed."

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, the great early English poet, and father of English poetry, the son of a vintner and taverner, born probably in London, where he lived almost all his days; when a lad, served as page in the royal household; won the favour and patronage of the king, Edward III.