or Sallenger’s—i.e., St. Leger’s round. TO DANCE SALLINGER’S-ROUND, verb. phr. (old).—To wanton; to copulate: cf. THE TUNE OF THE SHAKING OF THE SHEET. [SALLENGER’S ROUND = a loose ballad and tune, tempus Elizabeth.]
1703. WARD, The London Spy, ii. 28. I have an excellent Distillation of my own preparing, which some call Aqua Veneris: It will ‘restore an old Man of Threescore to the Juvenality of Thirty, or make a Girl at Fourteen, with Drinking but one Glass, as ripe as an old Maid of Twenty Four. ’Twill make a Parson DANCE SALLINGERS-ROUND, a Puritan lust after the Flesh, and a Married Man Oblige his Wife oftener in one Night, than without it he shall be able to do in Seven.’
