Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Chapman Revenge for Honour III ii: [He] has been / A bat-fowling all night after those birds, / Those lady-birds term’d wagtails.at bat-fowling, n.
Chapman Revenge for Honour I i: Then for accoutrements you wear the buff.at buff, n.1
Chapman Revenge for Honour V ii: [He] did with vicious looseness Corrupt the chaste streams of my spotless virtues, And left me soiled like a long-pluck’d rose Whose leaves dissever’d have foregone their sweetness.at rose, n.1
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