Malmsey Wine
is the wine of Malvaʹsia, in Candia.
“Thane spyces unsparyly thay spendyde thereaftyre,
Malvesye and muskadelle, thase mervelyous drynkes.”
(See Drowned in a Butt of …)
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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.