Green’s Dictionary of Slang

sexual intercourse.

1608		H. Parrot ‘Epigram’ in Wardroper (1969) 118: Young Mistress Joyce her husband doth solicit / To hire a garden-house near to the fields, / Which with her gossip she might weekly visit / (For something must she have that comfort yields). / I Fear this bower for common recreation / Will prove a place of private occupation.
1619		Jonson Conversations I 146: Sir Henry Wotton ... being interupted of his Occupation, by ane other Wenche ... cryed out Pox on the, for thou hast hindered the procreation of a Chyld & betrayed himself.
1640		H. Glapthorne Wit in a Constable 11: Take your selves (as to the last refuge) To the old occupation.
1664		C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk IV 90: He another / Manner of Life and Conversation / Should lead, and leave this Occupation.
1709		N. Ward Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 244: But when the Tenant’s forc’d to quit / Their warm and thriving Station, / The Messuage in a Month is fit / For further Occupation.