Brewer's: Phyllis

A country girl. (Virgil: Eclogues, iii. and v.)

Country messes, Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses.

Milton: L'Allegro.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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