Palliardize

Sardanapalus, son to Ocrazapes, Who wallowed in all voluptuousness, – That palliardizing sot that out of doors Ne'er showed his face, but reveled with his whores, Did wear their garbs, their gestures imitate, And […]

T. Milles in 1619 records that Charlemagne's eldest daughter was found palliardizing (paillardising) with . . . Eginhard, his secretary. A straw shows which way the wind blows.

My point is not that Donne was rationalizing his own (conjectural) palliardizing; elsewhere he lauds neverending mutuality and obviously he went to great lengths to make such a legally constraining match.

Tonight, for instance, now that Bert has been here, I listen to the piercing screams of palliardizing cats without self-pity. Another of these “posthumous” poems, “Glad,” written in 1965, was a second-person address […]