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Fumblers-Hall, kept and holden in Feeble-Court, at the sign of the Labour-in-vain, in Dee-little-Lane, wherein divers complaints & agrievances, out of the feminines in Cornucopia, are presented to the grave wisdoms of the masters of that company: concerning non-performance, want of due benevolence, deficiencie and corporal disabilities in man-kind, whereby poor distressed females languish under a pressing weight of misery, not only to the great decay of their trade and occupations, but to the destruction of generation it self. Whereunto is added the second part, newly discovered and set forth for information of delinquents that are to answer to these interrogations that shall be objected against them choose

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[UK] Fumblers-Hall 22: Sir, here’s all the Scolds and Alley-birds in London and the Suburbs.
at alley-bird (n.) under alley, n.1
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 17: You that play and never win / At the Game of In and In.
at play (at) in and in (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 15: The Taylors man in Black-Fryers had taken measure of your hide for a young bantling.
at bantling, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 9: Jone Would-have-more: Hes but a meer Gut, a Chitterling, a fiddle-string that will make no music to a Womans Instrument; yet when I tell him on’t, he pulls it out and shakes it, and puts up his fiddle-stick again.
at chitterling, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 12: Clerk: Kate Knock-well and William Dry-bones appear in the Court.
at dry-bone(s) (n.) under dry, adj.1
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 7: Sir Nicolas Frible: Every night she farts in her sleep, which [...] is most hateful to me.
at fart, v.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 9: Jone Would-have-more: Hes but a meer Gut, a Chitterling, a fiddle-string that will make no music to a Womans Instrument; yet when I tell him on’t, he pulls it out and shakes it, and puts up his fiddle-stick again.
at fiddlestick, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 7: Alice Allcock: Yet he is no more to me [...] than a straw in the Nostrils of a cow, a very slug, a meer fribble.
at fribble, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 5: Come you brave Artists of the Horned trade / [...] / May all-a-row now march to Fumblers-Hall.
at fumbler’s hall (n.) under fumbler, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 15: The Taylors man in Black-Fryers had taken measure of your hide for a young bantling.
at hide, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 5: Come you brave Artists of the Horned trade / That boast how many marr’d how many made.
at horned, adj.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 9: Jone Would-have-more: [He] falls to kissing me, & with a few other Jack Puddings tricks, thinks that sufficient satisfaction.
at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 20: [She] made me [...] a Iohn Hold-my-staff, an’t please ye.
at john-hold-my-staff (n.) under John, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 14: Kate Knock-well: I am your Worships humble / Hand-maid and do tell, / He that knocks best / Can knock at best but well.
at knock, v.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 15: [You] would come home as drunk as a Sow, and call me at your pleasure: pawn Petticoat, Smock Waistcoat.
at petticoat, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 21: Susan Shrews-face: I have a Sheeps-head to my husband, that’s bewicthed to dessembling whores.
at sheep’s head (n.) under sheep, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 5: Come you brave Artists of the Horned trade / [...] / The Suburbs are so full you well may rally.
at suburb, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 14: Master: Call in Nan Tickle-tail and Peter Bad-cock.
at tickle-tail, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 21: Susan Shrews-face: Would I could see any sneaking Cuckold [...] that dares to charge me: Uts Fut.
at ud, n.
[UK] Fumblers-Hall 20: The Man that lets his Wife bear rule, / Shall be both Wittal, Cuckold, and fool.
at wittol, n.
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