1820. P. EGAN, Jack Randall’s Diary, I. 5.
| Jack Randall then impatient rose, | |
| And said, ‘Tom’s speech were just as fine | |
| If he would call that first of GO’S | |
| By that genteeler name—WHITE WINE.’ |
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 387. The … ‘driz-fencers’ [or sellers of cheap lace] … carry about their persons … ‘jigger stuff’ (spirit made at an illicit still)…. They sold it, I ’ve heard them say, to ladies that liked a drop on the sly…. One old lady used to give 3s. for three yards of driz, and it was well enough understood, without no words, that a pint of brandy was part of them three yards.
