Flash

( Captain ), a blustering, cowardly braggart, “always talking of fighting and wars.” In the Flanders war he pretended to be shot, sneaked off into a ditch, and thence to England. When Captain Loveit met him paying court to Mi Biddy Bellaw, he commanded the blustering coward to “deliver up his sword,” and added: “Leave this house, change the color of your clothes and fiercene of your looks; appear from top to toe the very wretch thou art!”—D. Garrick, Mi in Her Teens (1753).