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What about being described as "dowsabel" or as a "percher"?

"Dowsabel" is "applied generically to a sweetheart, 'lady-love'".

The old nurse immediately folded him to her broad bosom, patted him on the back, and said, “Them, there, my dowsabel. It’s the same story Sir Ector told me when I caught him with a blue eye, gone forty years. Nothing like a good family for sticking to a good lie. There, my innocent you come along of me to the kitchen and well slap a nice bit of steak across him in no time. But you hadn’t ought to fight with people bigger than yourself.”

S. To Adriana! that is where we dined, 110 Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband: She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.

He is not ashamed to allude directly to Spenser; and indeed his direct debts are limited to a few scattered phrases, as in the Ballad of Dowsabel.