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* '''God's luck:''' Robert Browning, "Cavalier Tunes": "God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay," * '''by cock:''' mild form of "by God". For example in Ophelia's mad scene song, ''Hamlet'' (Act IV Scene 5): "By Gis and by Saint Charity,/Alack, and fie, for shame!.Young men will do ’t, if they come to ’t,/ By Cock, they are to blame." * '''cock:''' penis **1. Ellmann (1984), p. 555: "When the cad with a pipe asks him the time, he replies that it is 12 noon...The question and answer are homosexual argot (so used in Jean Genet's ''Journal du voleur''), the question being tantamount to a proposition, the answer (denoting erection) to consent." ("Pipe" can sometimes be slang for penis: compare, for instance, 411.10-11 and note.) [[Category:erection]]

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