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Updated: May 11, 2025
"And aren't we to have the pipes and tobacco, after coming so far to-night?" said some; but they were all well enough pleased when his honour got up to drink with them, and sent for more spirits from a shebean-house, where they very civilly let him have it upon credit.
A wake in England is a meeting avowedly for merriment; in Ireland it is a nocturnal meeting avowedly for the purpose of watching and bewailing the dead; but, in reality, for gossiping and debauchery. Shebean-house, a hedge alehouse. Shebcan properly means weak small-beer, taplash. At the coronation of one of our monarchs, the king complained of the confusion which happened in the procession.
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