of affairs were almost perpetually drunk.—Burnet,
His Own Time
(1723-34).
Druon "the Stern," one of the four knights who attacked Britomart and Sir Scudamore (3 syl.).
The warlike dame
(Britomart)
was on her part assaid
By Clarabel and Blandamour at one;
While Paridel and Druon fiercely laid
On Scudamore, both his professèd fone [