PTISAN • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Ptisan

... once your physic, wit your food: One nourish'd not, and t'other drew no blood: We now prescribe, like doctors in despair, The diet your weak appetites can bear. Since hearty beef and mutton will not do, Here's julep-dance, ptisan of song and show: Give you strong sense, the liquor is too heady: You're come to farce,—that's asses' milk,—already. Some hopeful youths there are, of callow wit, Who one day may be men, if Heaven think ...

— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden