He was a Roysterer, gambler and, according to some, highwayman.
"Curiosities of Impecuniosity"
H. G. Somerville
He now came frequently of an evening, to practise a duet for flutes with Victor;-a Mercadante, honeyed and flowing; too honeyed to suit a style that, as Fenellan characterized it to Nataly, went through the music somewhat like an inquisitive tourist in a foreign town, conscientious to get to the end of the work of pleasure; until the notes had become familiar, when it rather resembled a constable's walk along the midnight streets into collision with a garlanded Roysterer; and the man of order and the man of passion, true to the measure though they were, seeming to dissent, almost to wrangle, in their different ways of winding out the melody, on to the last movement; which was plainly a question between home to the strayed reveller's quarters or off to the lockup.
"One of Our Conquerors, v2"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
Bed, cried the Roysterer; no bed for me this night!
"Salute to Adventurers"
John Buchan