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Virgidemiarum choose

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[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk I 9: Nor list I sonnet of my Mistresse face, To paint some Blowesse with a borrowed grace.
at blowse, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk I 18: What if some Shoreditch fury should incite some lust-stung lecher.
at Shoreditch fury, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk III 40: Is’ not sweete pride, when men their crownes must shade, With that which ierks the hams of euery iadet.
at ham, n.1
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk I 12: The stalking steps of his great personage, Graced with huf-cap terms, and thundering threats.
at huffcap, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk I 17: Like as she were some light-skirts of the rest, In mightiest ink-hornismes he can thither wrest.
at light skirt(s), n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk I 12: Now soouping in side robes of Royaltie, That earst did skrub in lowsie brokerie.
at lousy, adj.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk V 87: He quaffe pure amber in his bowle Of March-brewd wheat.
at amber, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk IV 53: On midnight plaies, or tauerns of new wine, Hy ye white Aprons to your land-lords signe.
at white apron (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk IV 68: Hirelings enow beside, can be so base, Tho’ we should scorne ech bribing varlets brasse.
at brass, n.1
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk VI 103: Her grinders like two chalk-stones in a mill, Which shall with time and wearing waxe as ill.
at grinder, n.1
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk IV 58: Nay then his Hodge shall leaue the plough and waine, And buy a booke.
at hodge, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk IV 71: An hors-leech, barren womb, and gaping graue.
at horse leech (n.) under horse, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk IV 73: Ech muck-worme will be rich with lawlesse gaine.
at muck-worm, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk IV 54: When ech brasse-basen can professe the trade / Of ridding pockie wretches from their paine.
at pocky, adj.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk IV 54: And with her cruel lady-star uprose, Shee seeks hir third roust on her silent toes.
at roust, n.1
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk IV 68: The maydens mocke, and call him withered leeke, That with a greene tayle hath an hoary head, And now he would, and now he cannot wed.
at tail, n.
[UK] J. Hall Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk V 92: One peece pays her idle wayting man, [...] Or hires a Friezeland trotter [...] To drag his tumbrell through the staring Cheape.
at trotter, n.
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