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A Brown Dozen of Drunkards: (Ali-ass Drink-hards) Whipt, and shipt to the Jsle of Gulls: For their abusing of Mr. Malt the bearded son, and Barley-broth the brainlesse daughter of Sir John Barley-corne choose

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[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 2: [I]n Platoes great year, when [...] all Judges hate bribes, all Lawyear refuse fees, and all Black-coats great benefices.
at black coat (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 11: [H]is best Taverns were watersprings, his Host Duke Humphrey, his Hostesse mother Need, his lodging Beggars Inne.
at dine with Duke Humphrey (v.) under dine, v.
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 13: [heading] 7. Drunken Laurence, ali-ass Lusty-guts.
at lusty-guts, n.
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 17: [S]uch a drunken hotchpotch of affected rope Rhetorick, as makes him as ridiculous as a jangling Jay.
at jay, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 13: Lusty Laurence, that Lancashire Lad, who had 17. bastards in one year, if we believe his Ballad.
at lusty lawrence, n.
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 13: [A]ny dirty pudding serves this hot whelp of Cerberus, he desires to devoure more flesh then any Minotaure.
at pudding, n.
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 1: [heading] 1. Drunken Wimble-tree, ali-ass Reeler.
at reeler, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 10: [H]e consorts himselfe usually with [...] Raggamuffins, and Tatergallians, Tipplers, and Tinkers, and all the Troup of trash allied to the lash.
at tatterdemallion, n.
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 1: Rebells kept a plot of ground neere Athy in Ireland, called Gallowes Green, from whence they oft marched [...] downe Gallowes-gate, and up Hempstreet.
at walk up ladder Lane and down Hemp Street (v.) under walk, v.
[UK] J. Taylor A brown dozen of drunkards 16: [A] word-minter, [...] , a meer verball Windy-bags, above any mountbank, [...] a coiner of fustian phrases.
at windbag, n.
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