bum-beating

“_ Thus they say too, what though you have a Coach lined through with velvet, and four fair _Flanders_ mares, why should the streets be troubled continually with you, till Carmen curse you? can there be ought in this but pride of shew Lady, and pride of bum-beating, till the learned lawyers with their fat bags, are thrust against the bulks till all their causes crack? why should this Lady, and t'other”

Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher