subs. phr. (old cant).—Bacon.—HARMAN (1567); ROWLANDS (1610); HEAD (1665); B. E. (c. 1696); COLES (1724).
1608. DEKKER, Lanthorne and Candlelight [GROSART, Works, iii. 203]. If we mawnd Pannam, lap or RUFF-PECK.
1641. R. BROME, A Joviall Crew, ‘The Merry Beggars.’ Here’s RUFFPECK and Casson, and all of the best.
1707. J. SHIRLEY, The Triumph of Wit, ‘The Rum-Mort’s Praise of Faithless Maunder.’ RUFF PECK still hung on my Back.
