Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a high-spirited, independent woman, usu. synon. with a prostitute; thus ramping, high-spirited, promiscuous.

c.1480		Book of the Knight of de la Tour-Landry in Wright (trans.) (1868) 28: A woman that dede ansuere her husbonde afore straungeres like a rampe, with gret uelonis wordes, dispraising hym .
1548		Halle Henry VI (an. 6) n.p.: Ione [...] was a rampe of such boldnesse, that she would [...] do thynges that other yong maidens both abhorred and wer ashamed to do [F&H].
1575		‘Mr. S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) III iii: Nay, fie on thee, thou ramp, thou rig.
1584		Lyly Sapho and Phao III i: What victlers follow Bacchus campes? Fools, fidlers, panders, pimpes and rampes.
1593		G. Harvey Pierce’s Supererogation 145: Although she were a lustie bounsing rampe [...] yet she was not such a roinish rannell, or such a dissolute gillian-flurtes.
1610		Shakespeare Cymbeline I vi: Should he make me Live like Diana’s priest, betwixt cold sheets, While he is vaulting variable ramps.
1675		T. Duffet Psyche Debauch’d IV iii: Oh my dear Prince, why wouldst thou fly hence, and let thy loving Romp be stripp’d from all her Pomp.
1696		D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt 3 Epilogue: I dare now a Wage of Crowns You take me for the veriest Romp in Town – But e’re I part from ye, I’ll let you see, There’s other Molly Buxomes besides me [...] From thence back here again to Bulking Betty. [Ibid.] I i: She’s the plaguiest Ramp, the veriest Hoyden.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Ramp, a Tomrig, or rude Girl.
1714		J. Dennis Letter III Remarks on Mr Pope’s Rape of the Lock (1728) 16: The author [...] represents her likewise a fine, modest, well-bred lady. [...] And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg.
c.1731		Merry-Thought II 10: A Ramp of very noted Name, . . . Lascivious, as the human Race could be, She could not see a Man, but fell in Extasy.