bed-presser

Updated: May 14, 2025

Falstaffe is Humourously called Woolsack, Bed-presser, and Hill of Flesh; Harry a Starveling, an Elves-Skin, a Sheath, a Bowcase, and a Tuck. There is, in several incidents of the Conversation between them, the Jest still kept up upon the Person.

Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays