Son of Dripping (A)

A man cook, a turnspit.

“Yet, son of dripping … let us halt;

Soft fires, the proverb tells us, make sweet malt.”

Peter Pindar: The Lousiad, can to ii.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.