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Cataplus, or, Æneas, his descent to hell a mock poem in imitation of the sixth book of Virgil's Æneis, in English burlesque choose

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[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 30: His shirt that stood him much in stead / Alive, must serve him now he's dead. / This for a shrowd must wrap his arse.
at arse, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 51: Others by active fancy led / Were at turning arse over head.
at arse over head under arse, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 55: Aeneas in time long past knew / This shake-bag as well as I know you.
at shag-bag, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 5: Daedalus the Carpenter, / Who flew his Countrey and came there. / (By all report 'tis warrantable He had out-run the Constable).
at outrun the constable, v.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 54: There was a troop of Grecian Dons, / Achilles, and his Myrmidons, / Ajax that was in battel haughty, / And ?lysses in counsel crafty.
at don, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 17: Mother, quoth he, I speak from heart, / I value not these things a fart.
at give a fart (v.) under fart, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 82: Good deeds are but flams.
at flam, n.1
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 16: A wench there is given to flickring, / Who shall be cause of all this bickring.
at flicker, v.1
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 10: The Sibyl would belch, fart, and stink, / Assoon’s [sic] the scoundrels came she hoisted / Her bum, and in their faces foisted.
at foist, v.2
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 49: In these precincts liv’d Justice of peace / That never had palm lickt with grease.
at grease, n.1
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 18: Where muddy Acheron from sink / Casts hogo forth and noysome stink.
at hogo, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 75: Why shou'd the staring Jacanoddies / Desire to resume new bodies?
at jackanoddy, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 10: She lookt o’th’ sudden pale as ashes, / [...] / As if she had taken a full cup Of Chymick potion, or jallop.
at jollop, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 7: Many a thief and high-way padder / Mounted up on fatal Ladder.
at go up the ladder (to bed) (v.) under ladder, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 68: Some Capapee a horseback rid / Like French Mounsieur or Spanish Cid.
at mounseer, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 49: Where was a Gaol and in’t a Legion / Of younger brothers, who were glad / For want of quodlibets to pad / Which were asham'd to beg, yet feel / No bite in conscience to steal.
at pad, v.1
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 17: Out of Greece thou shalt have prog, / Hogs puddings, oat-cakes, milk and butter, / Bacon, eggs, poultrey, and a clatter/ Of pease and beans, with pannier'd baggage / Of parsnips, turnips, carrots, cabbage.
at prog, n.1
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 7: For he alas! was impotent; / In short, he was another such thing / As waggish people call a ridgling.
at ridgling, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 19: So that thou canst delude by barking / As well as Reinard pullets sharking.
at shark, v.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 18: He was as lusty an old shaver / As any in this rout I have here.
at shaver, n.1
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 3: Upon a sudden then a rout Of Slubberdegullions lept out.
at slabberdegullion, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 65: Here Phlegyas that was a bad stick / Of heresy, and a fanatick.
at stick, n.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 68: Hundreds a sitting on stools and benches / Slobber’d and tows'd the Countrey wenches.
at towze, v.
[UK] M. Atkins Cataplus 25: This whipster had a plaguy knack / At trumpet blowing and horn-crack.
at whipster, n.
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