subs. (old).—A whoremonger (B. E.): spec. (GROSE) ‘a man kept by an old lady for secret purposes.’
1605. CHAPMAN, All Fools, iii. 1.
| Thou playest the STALLYON ever where thou com’st;… | |
| No man’s bed secure, | |
| No womans honour unattempted by thee. |
1622. MARMION, Holland’s Leaguer, i. 4.
| Their [women’s] unjust desires would ask the labours | |
| Of some ten STALLIONS. |
1678. COTTON, Scarronides, or, Virgil Travestie (1770), 32.
| And if thou stay’st that Rogue Pygmalion | |
| Intends to use thee like a STALLION. |
1686. EARL OF DORSET, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies [ROCHESTER, Roscommon, Works (1718), II. 44]. Ne’er was a truer STALLION to his cost.
1686. ROCHESTER, Works (1718), ‘Lais Junior,’ I. 75. Disabling sluts and STALLIONS every hour. Ibid., I. 167, ‘Rochester’s Farewell.’ Of numerous STALLIONS let her not despair.
1694. MOTTEUX, Rabelais, V. vii. Don’t you STALLIONISE it sometimes? Ibid., The Pantagruelian Prognostication, v. Smockers, STALLIONS and belly-bumpers.
1697. VANBRUGH, The Provoked Wife, iv. Sir John. … That Goat there, that STALLION, is ready to whip me through the Guts.
1705. WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, II. ii. 15. And pick his Pocket, to supply Some starving STALLION of the Town. Ibid., ‘Hypocrisy Lampoon’d.’ The Mourning Widow too can play The Hypocrite with Vail on, And most devoutly kneel and pray, Tho’ ’tis but for a STALION.
1772. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 216.
| As to that copper-nosed rabscallion, | |
| Venus’s bully-back and STALLION. |
