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 Ward Money, Ward-penny, or Wardage.Ware. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Warden-pie.
 
Pie made of the Warden pear. Warden pears are so called from Warden Abbey, Berks, where they are grown in great profusion.   1
       
“Myself with denial I mortify
With a dainty bit of a Warden-pie.”
       
The Friar of Orders Grey.
 


 Ward Money, Ward-penny, or Wardage.Ware. 

 
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