Canary wine

"Would you care for a glass of Canary wine?"

Dryden had a pension of £300 and a butt of Canary wine.

Ben Jonson first received a pension of 100 marks, and later an annual "terse of Canary wine".

He was a merchant, who exported in salted pilchards to the Canary Islands and imported canary wine.

"Not for long," Hal assured him, as he waved him to a chair, and poureda glass of Canary wine for him.

And of Ben Jonson, i poet, who could hit a cask of canary wine over hi head and drink from the bunghole.

This town was once a port - the hub of Canary wine exports - until calamities spanning a volcanic eruption and a cholera epidemic lost it its importance.

Jonson's Inviting a Friend to Supper refers to "A pure cup of rich Canary wine, / Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine".

Immanuel Kant, writing in 1790, observes of a man "If he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if someone else corrects his terms and reminds him to say instead: It is agreeable to me," because "Everyone has his own (sense of) taste".

It is time that the good Colonel came forth to greet his friends; else we shall be apt to suspect that he has taken a sip too much of his Canary wine, in his extreme deliberation which cask it were best to broach in honor of the day!

It chanced one day, however, that one of them insisted upon my sharing his glass of Canary wine, and afterwards out of roguishness persuaded me to take a second, with the result that I was sent home speechless in the carrier's cart, and was never again allowed to go into Portsmouth alone.