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 DaggerDagger-scene in the House of Commons. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
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.”
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Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, i. 1.
 


 DaggerDagger-scene in the House of Commons. 

 
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