1593. NASHE, Christ’s Teares, in wks. IV., 228 (GROSART). Those whom the Sunne sees not in a month together, I nowe see IN THEIR CUPPES and their jolitie.
1688. SHADWELL, The Squire of Alsatia, III., in wks. (1720) iv., 64. I shall take my leave: you are IN YOUR CUPS: you will wish you had heard me.
1693. DRYDEN, Juvenal, x. 288. Which IN HIS CUPS the bowsy poet sings.
1712. ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull, pt. II., ch. iv. She used to come home IN HER CUPS, and break the china and the looking-glasses.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (The Brothers of Birchington).
| Gets tipsy whenever he dines or he sups, | |
| And is wont to come quarrelsome home IN HIS CUPS. |
1864. MARK LEMON, The Jest Book, p. 185. [Of one remarkable at once for Bacchanalian devotion and large and startling eyes], ‘I always know when he has been IN HIS CUPS by the state of his saucers.’
