Brewer's: Phyllising the Fair

Philandering- making soft speeches and winning faces at them. Garth says of Dr. Atterbury-

He passed his easy hours, instead of prayer, In madrigals and phyllising the fair.

The Dispensary. i.

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