gilded
“'em—This grand liquor that hath,”
THE TEMPEST, v. 1. 280.
Gilded is a cant expression for“drunk;” and in grand liquor there is an allusion to the grand elixir of
the alchemists. Compare medicine hath With his tinct gilded
thee—That great.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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