Dryden's
Conquest of Grenada
, part ii. act i. sc. 2.
Murphy, in sc. 1 of
The Way to Keep Him
(1760), uses the word in the same sense;
"A wife's a drug now; mere tar-water, with every virtue under heaven, but nobody takes it."
Dryden's
Conquest of Grenada
, part ii. act i. sc. 2.
Murphy, in sc. 1 of
The Way to Keep Him
(1760), uses the word in the same sense;
"A wife's a drug now; mere tar-water, with every virtue under heaven, but nobody takes it."