Hudibras
, iii. 1 (1678).
Purchase tells us of certain priests of Pekin, "who barter with the people upon bills of exchange, to be paid in heaven a hundredfold."—Pilgrims, iii. 2.
Drum (Jack), Jack Drum's entertainment is giving a guest the cold shoulder.
Shakespeare calls it "John Drum's entertainment" (All Well, etc., act iii. sc. 6), and Holinshead speaks of "Tom Drum his entertaynement, which is to hale a man in by the heade, and thrust him out by both the shoulders."
Drummle (Bentley) and Startop, two young men who read with Mr. Pocket. Drummle is a surly, ill-conditioned fellow, who marries Estella.—C. Dickens, Great Expectations (1860).
Drunken Parliament, a Scotch parliament assembled at Edinburgh, January I, 1661.
It was a mad, warring time, full of extravagance;
and no wonder it was so, when the men