1539. Lyndsay, Thrie Estaitis, II. 98. And ye ladies that list to pisch, Lift up your taill plat in ane disch.
1539. Palsgrave, Lang. Francoyse, . . . But a pyssynge whyle, tant quon auroyt pisse, or ce pendant. Ibid., subst. f. 66. Stale, pysse, escloy.
c. 1541. Scholehouse of Women [Hazlitt, E. Pop. Poet., iv. 113]. He would not once turn me for to kisse; Every night he riseth for to pisse. Ibid., 121. A pissepot they brake vpon his pate.
1551. Still, Gammer Gurton [Dodsley, Old Plays, ii. 50]. He shall never be at rest one pissing-while a day.
1554. Udall, Apoph. of Erasmus, 25. She, beyng moche the more incensed by reason of her husbandes quietnesse and stillnesse, powred doune a pissebolle upon hym out of a windore.
c. 1555. Vpcheringe of the Messe, 96. Alacke, for payne I pyssa.
1575. Touchstone of Complexion, 99. Manye men . . . take the matter in as greate snuffe, as they would to be crowned with a pyssebolle.
1594. Shakspeare, 1 Hen. VI., iv. 6. I charge and command, that, of the cities cost, The pissing-conduit run nothing but claret wine, The first year of our reign.
1595. Shakspeare, Two Gentlemen, iv. 3. He had not been there a pissing-while but all the chamber smelt him.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Ciangola . . . Also a pisse-pot. Ibid., Pisciatoio, a pissing place . . . Also a pis-pot.
1598. Stowe, London, 144. Some distance west is the Royal Exchange—and so downe to the little conduit, called the pissing-conduit by the stockes market.
1620. Fletcher, Women Pleas'd, i. 2. I shall turn pissing-conduit shortly [quoth a servant drenched with water].
1623. Mabbe, Guzman (1630), 240. Master Nicolas hath rods in pisse for you . . . and is plotting how he may be reuenged of thee.
1623. Webster, Devil's Law Case, ii. 1. When that your worship has bepist yourself, Either with vehemency of argument, Or, being out from the matter.
1630. Taylor, Works [Nares]. On every pissing-post their names I'll place.
1632. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, i. 7. I shall entreat your mistress . . . to have patience but a pissing-while.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, 1. v. The pissing tool and urinal vessels shall have nothing of it. Ibid., xi. He pissed in his shoes, shit in his shirt, and wiped his nose on his sleeve.
1672. Lacy, Dumb Lady, v. 1. The household . . . paid my worship with their pisse-pots out of the garret.
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i. 2. That spark, who has his fruitless designs upon the bed-ridden rich widow, to the sucking heiress in her pissing-clout.
1672. Ray, Proverbs, 206. To stay a pissing-while.
1676. Etheredge, Man of Mode, ii. 1. Old Bell. Out, a pise of their Breeches. Idem, v. 2. Old Bell. Out, a pise! (et passim).
1678. Cotton, Virgil Travestie [Works (1725), 137]. All at the first that they amiss thought, Was that her Grace had mist the Piss-pot. Ibid., 126. Therefore I think it not amiss for's To launch, for there are Rods in Piss for's.
d. 1678. Marvell, Poems [Murray], 188. I'll have a council shall sit always still, And give me a license to do what I will; and two secretaries shall piss through a quill.
1682. A. Radcliffe, The Ramble, 86. I roused my doe, and laced her gown, I pinn'd her whisk, and dropt a crown, She piss'd, and then I drove her down, Like thunder.
1694. Poor Robin [Nares]. Each pissing-post will be almost pasted over with quacks bills.
1706. Ward, Wooden World, 67. He crawls up upon Deck to the Piss-dale. Ibid. (1709), London Spy, i. 64. He had provided them a plentiful bowl of piss.
1714. Lucas, Gamesters, 71. As he was pissing at Temple Bar.
1740. North, Examen, 70. So strangely did Papist and Fanatic or . . . the Anti-court Party piss in a quill; agreeing in all things that tended to create troubles and disturbances.
d. 1745. Swift, Miscellanies, "On the Discovery of the Longitude." Now Ditton and Whiston may both be be-pissed on. [Et passim.]
