subs. (old cant).—Milk. POPLARS OF YARUM = milk porridge (HARMAN, B. E., and GROSE).
1567. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, 86. She has a cackling-chete, a grunting-chete, ruff pecke, cassan, and POPPLAR OF YARUM.
1608. DEKKER, Lanthorne and Candlelight [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 3].
| The Ruffin cly the nab of the Harmanbeck, | |
| If we mawnd Pannam, lap, or Ruff-peck, | |
| Or POPLARS OF YARUM: he cuts, bing to the Ruffmans. |
1641. R. BROME, A Joviall Crew, ii. Here’s Pannam and Lap, and good POPLARS OF YARRUM.
