John Drum’s Entertainment.

Hauling a man by his ears and thrusting him out by the shoulders. The allusion is to “drumming” a man out of the army. There is a comedy so called, published 1601.

“When your lordship sees the bottom of his success in ʹt … if you give him not John Drum’s entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.”—Shakespeare: All’s Well that Ends Well, iii. 6.