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[UK] Look About You xxviii: Men may be wanton, women must not range.
at range, v.
[UK] Look About You xiv: Your dear son Jack-an-apes; Your monkey, your baboon, your ass, your gull!
at baboon, n.
[UK] Look About You xxiv: Leave your mocking, you were best, I’ll bob your beetle head.
at beetle-head (n.) under beetle, n.1
[UK] Look About You viii: If she be displeased at any news I bring, it’s more than I must blab.
at blab, v.
[UK] Look About You xxxi: Ye bobb’d me first.
at bob, v.1
[UK] Look About You xiii: My fa-fa-father has brought his ho-ho-hogs to a fa-fa-fair m-m-market.
at bring one’s hogs to a fair market (v.) under bring, v.
[UK] Look About You I i: Thou worm of majesty, thou froth, thou bubble!
at bubble, n.1
[UK] Look About You xxx: I’ll bu-bumbast you i’faith.
at bumbaste, v.
[UK] Look About You xxx: I’ll ca-ca-caperclaw t-t-t’one of ye, for mo-mo-mocking me.
at clapperclaw, v.
[UK] Look About You xxviii: Why, she is a very dowdy, A dishclout, a foul gipsey unto thee.
at dishclout, n.
[UK] Look About You xi: Gloster hath plotted means for an escape, And if it fadge, why so; if not, then well.
at fadge, v.
[UK] Look About You xxi: He was here to-day, sir, And emptied two bottles of nippitate sack.
at nipitate, n.
[UK] Look About You xx: I hope thou wilt nor cheat me, princocks John!
at princock, n.
[UK] Look About You xvi: Ha! crake! can your low stumps venture so deep Into affection’s stream?
at stumps, n.
[UK] Look About You xxvii: glo.: Which way will Fauconbridge? fau.: Over the water, and So with all speed I may to Stepney.
at water, the, n.
[UK] Look About You xxv: Now, holy Skink, in thy religious weed.
at weeds, n.
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