Friday, 29 July 2011

Pot-Fury and Ale-Passion


I have very little to say today, except that pot-fury is the excitement brought on by inebriation and ale-passion is an old word meaning hangover. That's passion in its original sense of suffering, as in the passion of Christ. Ale-passion is mentioned in the 1593 Bacchus Bountie in the following context:

Fourthly, came wallowing in a German, borne in Mentz, his name was Gotfrey Grouthead; with him he brought a wallet full of woodcocks heads; the braines thereof, tempered with other sauce, is a passing preseruatiue against the ale-passion, or paine in the pate.

I'm now off to find a bunch of woodcocks.
Do you eat the beak as well?
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5 comments:

  1. Fran Hill29 July 2011 at 17:25

    You eat the woodcock USING the beak, silly.

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  2. Levi Montgomery29 July 2011 at 18:32

    Using the beak... as a handle?

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  3. Zoe29 July 2011 at 20:41

    Next time my work colleague is eating MacD burgers to assuage his ale-passion, I will suggest woodcock brains, and monitor the pace of consumption.

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  4. The Antipodean, from the depths of the passion of the Chardonnay,30 July 2011 at 06:24

    Dogberry, praps a hangover label? Or at least a link to the hangover post.

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