Brewer's: Jacob the Scourge of Grammar

Giles Jacob, master of Romsey, in Hampshire, brought up for an attorney. A poetaster in the time of Pope. (See Dunciad, iii.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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