Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Slut
Our Polly is a sad slut, nor heeds what we have taught her;
I wonder any man alive will ever rear a daughter;
For when she’s drest with care and cost, all tempting fine and gay,
As men should serve a cucumber, she flings herself away.
Gay.—The Beggar’s Opera.