gillore

Updated: May 23, 2025

And then would he sing a stave or two of a Dutch drinking song, swaying a short squab Dutch bottle in his hand, while his myrmidons would join in chorus, until the woods echoed again; as the good old song has it: "They all with a shout made the elements ring, So soon as the office was o'er; To feasting they went with true merriment. And tippled strong liquor gillore."

Washington Irving - Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists