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In Beaumont and Fletcher's burlesque Knight of the Burning Pestle, Mr Merrythought sings: With hey trixy terlery-whiskin 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. Any ideas? | ||
Several sources give a bawdier version: When the young man's prick's in The rhyming word is given as whiksin or whicksin instead of whiskin. | 1 | |