Brewer's: Dagger Ale

is the ale of the Dagger, a celebrated ordinary in Holborn.

My lawyer's clerk I lighted on last night In Holborn, at the Dagger.

Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, i. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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