subs. phr. (old).—A Spanish wine. [From Sp. ‘Pedra Ximenes,’ the famous cardinal.] Also PETER, PETER-SA-MENE, and PETER-SEMINE.

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  1617.  BRATHWAITE, Vandunk’s Four Humours [PALMER in Stanford]. I am phlegmaticke as may be, PETER SEE ME must inure me.

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  1620.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Chances, v. 3.

        By Canary thus I charge thee,
By Britain, Mathewglin, and PEETER,
Appear and answer me in meeter.

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  1653.  MIDDLETON, The Spanish Gipsy, iii. 1.

        PETER-SEE-ME shall wash thy noul
  And malaga glasses for thee;
If, poet, thou toss not bowl for bowl,
  Thou shalt not kiss a doxy.

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  1630.  TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes, sig. 2 Fff 4 r. 1. ‘The Praise of Hemp-seed.’ PETER-SE-MEA, or head strong Charnico.

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