Here stands an old sloven, in a Wig actually putrify'd, squeez'd up in a Corner, and recommends a Dram of it to the Goers-by: There another in Rags, with several Bottles in a Basket, stirs about with it, where the Throng is the thinnest, and tears his Throat with crying his Commodity; and further off, you may see the Head of a third, who has ventur'd in the Middle of the Current, and minds his Business, as he is fluctuating in the irregular Stream: Whilst higher up, an old decrepit Woman sits dreaming with it on a Bulk; and over against her, in a Soldier's Coat, her termagant Daughter sells the Sots-Comfort with great Dispatch.
"An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725)"
Bernard Mandeville Malvin R. Zirker
First, the fashionable sloven, Augustus Somers, lounged and sauntered himself into her good graces; but his dishevelled hair, and otherwise neglected toilette, not exactly meeting her ideas of an elegant lover, she gave him up at the end of three weeks.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter
Women were made to give our eyes delight; A female sloven is an odious sight.
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young