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Norfolk Drollery, or, A compleat collection of the newest songs, jovial poems, and catches, &c. choose

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[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 85: For he is still, though he be dead, / But in a manner put to bed.
at put to bed with a mattock (and tucked up with a spade) (adj.) under bed, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 82: Ropes that wou’d meet thr ground can’t draw ye to’t / And yet a hair of the same dog wou’d do’t.
at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 83: There where your eye-sore Mare turn’d taile, / Upon the bowsing Tub of Ale.
at bousing, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 102: Th’ Combatants, Calveshead and Bacon met.
at calf’s head (n.) under calf, n.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 111: For when your dripping Nose you handle, / You seem to me to snuff a Candle.
at candlestick, n.2
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 66: Well then, by this I see that every Man / Is not cut out for a Corinthian.
at corinthian, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 121: Such a mishap, such a ship-timber’d quean, / An ill-grown crotch, of the Forest of Dean. / A bunch-backt Camel, or a ragged Staff, / An object cou’d not make me love, but laugh?.
at crotch, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 81: But you did talk [...] / Of Crowns, when you in the Crown Office were. / Ale makes a bargain and claps hasty hand to’t.
at in the crown-office (adj.) under crown, n.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 18: Farewell! a pretty story faith; if I / No better fare, I need not Roast-meat cry.
at cry roast meat (v.) under cry, v.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 96: His bow-dyed Flag in the Red-squadron place, / But he show’d a Fireship by his face].
at fireship, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 13: They that before so great a noise did keep, / Now slept, and in the rightest sense, Fox-sleep.
at fox-sleep (n.) under fox, n.2
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 13: Some Fudle-cap sure came / Into the Room, and gave his own name. / How should he catch a Fox?
at catch a fox (v.) under fox, n.2
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 65: Pox of their Pictures, if we had ’um here, / We’d find ’um frames at Tyburn.
at sheriff’s picture frame, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 15: This bold, and careless Amazon, / Fronted, and fir’d on every one.
at front, v.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 13: Some Fuddle-cap sure came Into the Room.
at fuddlecap, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 58: The Sparrow this for a Hedg-Tavern took: / If any mischief then, you to him do; / You’l prove yourself worse hedg-bird of the two.
at hedge-bird (n.) under hedge, adj.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 63: Affront too Hogen-Mpogen to Endure! / Tis time to box their Butter-Boxes sure.
at hogan-mogan, adj.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 124: But are the Hogan Mogan grown so tame, / The Belgick Lyon made the Woamns game?
at hogan-mogan, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 113: His Wife, whom he suspected Light, / He to a Lobster did invite.
at light, adj.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 96: His face else, which does so with Rubies shine, / A Jeweller’s shop is, and his Nose the sign.
at malmsey nose, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 111: Say Mother piteous, do you not / For Oatmeal, rob the Porridg-pot? / Run you not into private holes, / To break your Fast with Salt, and Coals?
at Mother Piteous (n.) under mother, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 84: O! if you chance pass her Door, / I prithee (Tom) commend me to her: / And send me word next Post, that I may tell / Our mother Damnable, her Sisters well.
at Mother Damnable (n.) under mother, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 13: And while they slept secure, in came the Watch / And does this pickel’d Congregation catch.
at pickled, adj.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 62: But now he quacks, a Doctor of great skill, / To Cure their bodies, though their souls he kill.
at quack, v.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 86: [in sense of hair] ’Tis well his Pate was weather-proof, / For Palace-like it had no Roof: / The hair was off.
at roof, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 96: His face else, which does so with Rubies shine, / A Jeweller’s shop is, and his Nose the sign].
at ruby, n.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 103: In which sharp Conflict, Bacon lost his sword, / About his brains [Calveshead] brandisht his bright slasher / [...] / cutting at Bacon’s britch.
at slasher, n.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 84: The Earth’s deliver’d of a Timpanie, / And all the Captives of her womb set free.
at tympany, n.
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