Careful Words

shilling (n.)

Still amorous and fond and billing,

Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 687.

With one hand he put

A penny in the urn of poverty,

And with the other took a shilling out.

Robert Pollok (1799-1827): The Course of Time. Book viii. Line 632.