1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 47: His Bride intending Action more than Devotion, addressed her selfe to him, in this Bridall Curtaine Lecture.at action, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 93: The common cure for care to every man, / ‘A potte of nappy Ale’.at nappy (ale), n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 129: But I warrant it, thou wouldst [‘dye with loving’], if thou hadst an handfull of me. A proper handfull, quoth she. I should bee much better for a bit and a buffet with't. Nay, faith, wench, I would never buffet.at bit, n.1
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 60: [T]hat fat Farrier and his bounsing Hussy; who meeting in a Forrest, and both addressed for pleasure.at bouncing, adj.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 162: Should he fall of in his posture, through debility of nature; her Page must be preferred before her Vsher: and the reason is, a Cock-Sparrow is more active than a Bald Bussard.at buzzard, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 84: A wily wench there was (as I have read,) / Who us’d to Capricorne her Husbands head.at capricorn, v.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 163: [At the Play-house she] gracefully whispers in her Vshers care [...] and now and then at some amorous-moving passage, playes at Cent-foot purposely to discover the pregnancy of her conceit.at cent-foot (n.) under cent, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 47: Pray thee chick, what art’ doing? Praying, Coney, said he. For what, Pigs-nie, said shee?at cony, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 74: [T]he Tale of a Wenching Companion, who could not fare well but he must cry roast-meat.at cry roast meat (v.) under cry, v.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 13: You are none of our Curtain Lecturers, who disquiet the rest of your Husbands. Nor know you how to call them up into the Garret, to give them gentle correction [ibid.] 47: His Bride intending Action more than Devotion, addressed her selfe to him, in this Bridall Curtaine Lecture.at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 80: [He] begins to read his Wife a Curtaine Lecture.at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 235: [They] continued there for a season in all jollity and pleasure: every one having his dainty Doxy or Damasella to consort with.at doxy, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 90: One (and such an One very likely as had a finger in the pye) seeing him in this mad mood; begunne to chide him.at finger, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 76: One, who could forge and hammer any thing cunningly, to compasse her pleasure.at forge, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 43: To take a Green-gowne, as to give a Sillibub: for if you should barre them of Liberty, they could finde small employment for Agility of body.at green gown, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 8: [of an adulterous couple] [H]is impertinent Greek phrase made them merry Greekes all that night.at Greek, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 76: One, who could forge and hammer any thing cunningly, to compasse her pleasure.at hammer, v.1
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 164: For if this reverend Trunke-hose turne up his heeles, whosoever stumble on his Grave, his Foreman Vsher is in faire possibility, to enjoy his grath.at turn up one’s heels (v.) under heel, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 83: Now, with what dishonour he was kick’t out oth' Chamber, I leave it to you, if you had your wives besieged in like manner, to censure.at kick out, v.1
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 226: Sir, either light thoughts have so mis-guided you [...] or some base [...] Betrayer of Womens honour ha’s deluded you, by giving you incouragement to such an indiscreet attempt.at light, adj.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 226: What loose passage ha’s there fallne from us, or wherein have you seene any argument of Lightnesse by us? at lightness (n.) under light, adj.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 98: That trifling Girle, who fell a cracking of nuts, while another was taking paines to picke out the kernell of her virginity.at nuts, n.2
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 109: Chafed! how? with oyle of tongue; / Hardned! how? by suff'ring wrong.at oil of tongue (n.) under oil of..., n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 59: I will give you here a touch of the slavish condition of those inhabitants, to weine the most mercenary Palliard from the like qualities.at palliard, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 47: Pray thee chick, what art’ doing? Praying, Coney, said he. For what, Pigs-nie, said shee?at pigsnyes, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 31: Dearest Duckling, be it knowne to you [...] that I have pissed bloud three dayes and three nights since I last saw you, and received that unwomanly relentlesse answer from you: so as your harsh and untoward quality was the onely cause [...] of this my misery.at piss blood (v.) under piss, v.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 100: Play with me, but hurt me not; Ieast [i.e. lie’st] with me, but shame me not.at play, v.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 118: —trust mee, Chick, thou shalt not. —Now, pray thee, Prick, doe not. -iffaith, you’r a sleake youth. —you playd the wag with mee last night. — well, God forgive thee.at prick, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? 4: Shee was made of a Crookt Subject, a Rib: and out of her crooked disposition [...] shee will not stick to tyrannize over a sheepish husband, and give him rib-roast.at rib roast, n.
1640 R. Brathwaite Ar’t Asleepe, Husband? : [S]he did it [i.e. slept with the neighbour] [...] to know whether other men had a stone at rigge, as he had, which made her suspect him for a Monster.at rig, n.5