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In Beaumont and Fletcher's burlesque Knight of the Burning Pestle, Mr Merrythought sings:

With hey trixy terlery-whiskin
The world it runs on wheels;
When the young man's ______
Up goes the maiden's heels.

Presumably the missing word rhymes with whiskin. I thought of friskin', and so did whoever wrote in the margin of one edition reproduced in google books, but that's not obscene enough to be replaced with dashes.

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Several sources give a bawdier version:

When the young man's prick's in
Up goes the maiden's heels.

The rhyming word is given as whiksin or whicksin instead of whiskin.


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