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Brewed a vessell of strong Beer today. My two large Piggs, by…
Quote byJames Woodforde · 1740–1803
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Diary entry (15 April 1778), quoted in The Diary of a Country Parson: The Reverend James Woodforde. 1758–1781, ed. John Beresford (1924), pp. 222-223.
English (original)
Brewed a vessell of strong Beer today. My two large Piggs, by drinking some Beer grounds taking out of one of my Barrels today, got so amazingly drunk by it, that they were not able to stand and appeared like dead things almost, and so remained all night from dinner time today. I never saw Piggs so drunk in my life, I slit their ears for them without feeling.
— James Woodforde
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