Comestipple Sacksoun
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- tipple: to partake of alcoholic beverages
- comestible: edible
- sack: dry sherry, beloved of Falstaff in a number of Shakespeare's plays
- Sackerson: one of the bears in the Bear Pit near the Globe Theatre in Shakespeare’s time → S
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- Ulysses 180.25: “The bear Sackerson growls in the pit near it, Paris garden”
- Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1.306: "I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by the chain."
