You remember this shilling is mentioned in Butler's 'Hudibras:' "'Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.' "You couldn't have a more appropriate token for your cake, my dear," he said to Eugenia with a smile.

Then he laid it on the table, and taking up his papers, passed back into his den.
"That's the first time I ever heard my name in a poem," said Phil.

"By rights I ought to draw that shilling in my share of cake.

If I do I shall take it as a sign that history is going to repeat itself, and shall look around for a ladye-love named Mary.

Now I know a dozen songs with that name, and such things always come in handy when 'a frog he would a-wooing go,' There's 'My Highland Mary' and 'Mary of Argyle,' and 'Mistress Mary, quite contrary,' and 'Mary, call the cattle home, across the sands of Dee!'" As he rattled thoughtlessly on, nothing was farther from his thoughts than the self-conscious little Mary just behind him.