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Pie made of the Warden pear. Warden pears are so called from Warden Abbey, Berks, where they are grown in great profusion.
“Myself with denial I mortify
With a dainty bit of a Warden-pie.”
The Friar of Orders Grey.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.