Tobias Smollett,
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
(1772)
“ The maids, having nothing to do, may be sat a spinning. I desire you'll clap a pad-luck on the wind-seller, and let none of the men have excess to the strong bear—don't forget to have the gate shit every evening before dark—The gardnir and the hind may lie below in the landry, to partake the house, with the blunderbuss and the great dog ”
