'I your Enemy, Sir!' ſays he, with much Amazement, and ſome Sternneſs in his Look. 'Nay, be not angry,' ſaid Benjamin, 'for I promiſe you I am not. You are perfectly innocent of having intended me any Wrong; for you was then an Infant; but I ſhall, I believe, unriddle all this the Moment I mention my Name. Did you never hear, Sir, of one Partridge, who had the honour of being reputed your Father, and the Misfortune of being ruined by that Honour?'
1749, Henry Fielding, “In which More of the Talents of Mr. Benjamin will Appear, as well as Who this Extraordinary Person was”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], book VIII, page 186