Green’s Dictionary of Slang
E. Sharpham Fleire III i: She euerie day sings John for the King, and at Vp tailes all shees perfect.at up-tails-all, n.
E. Sharpham Fleire II i: Their meate [...] comes no sooner from Table, but t’one fellow has a fatte Ducke by the rumpe, thother a slipperie Ele by the taile, and an olde Courtier that best knew the tricks on’t, was mumbling of a Cunnie in a corner alone by himselfe.at duck, n.1
E. Sharpham Fleire IV i: Come to her as countrie Gentlewomen doe into the fashion, that is: in the taile and latter end on’t.at end, n.
E. Sharpham Fleire II i: For their shooes are so hie, and their heeles so short if they should not be led, thei’d play domesticke trickes abroad, and show all.at short heels, n.
E. Sharpham Fleire I ii: Ladies loue to haue it Linde a good depth in.at line, v.1
E. Sharpham Fleire I iii: I haue heard of one woman hath seru’d ten men, but I neuer heard that one man should bee preferred to serue two women before.at serve, v.
E. Sharpham Fleire II i: [They] scorne to haue a Suburbian Baw’d lend am a Taffaty gown.at suburbian, n.
E. Sharpham Fleire II i: I could laugh, daunce, leape, or doe anie light tricks that belongs to a light wench.at trick, n.1
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