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‘The Temple’ Hesperides 104: Of Cloyster-Monks they have enow, I, and their Abbey-lubbers, too.at abbey-lubber, n.
‘The Temple’ Hesperides 104: Of Cloyster-Monks they have enow, I, and their Abbey-lubbers, too. ‘Epithalamie to Sir T. Southwell and his Ladie’ Hesperides 61: She must no more a Maying [...] Nor name those wanton reals / Y’ave had at Barley-breaks.at barley-break, n.
‘Upon Skurffe’ Hesperides I 251: Skurffe by his Nine-bones sweares, and well he may, All know a Fellon eate the Tenth away.at ten bones, n.
‘The Wake’ Hesperides 309: Neer the dying of the day, / There will be Cudgell-Play, / Where a Coxcomb will be broke.at coxcomb, n.
‘Upon Cuffe’ Hesperides 40: Cuffe comes to Church much, but he keeps his bed / Those Sundayes onely when as Briefs are read. This makes Cuffe dull.at cuff, n.1
‘Upon Doll’ Hesperides 165: Doll she so soone began the wanton trade; / She ne’r remembers that she was a maide.at doll, n.1
‘A Lyric to Mirth’ Hesperides 41: Drink, and dance, and pipe, and play; / Kisse our Dollies night and day.at dolly, n.1
‘Upon Scobble’ Hesperides 47: Scobble for Whoredome whips his wife; and cryes, / He’ll slit her nose; [...] she replyes, / Good Sir, make no more cuts i’ th’ outward skin, / One slit’s enough to let Adultry in.at -dom, sfx
Hesperides 310: Come guard this night the Christmas-Pie, / That the Thiefe, though ne’r so slie, / With his Flesh-hooks, don’t come nie / To catch it.at flesh hooks (n.) under flesh, n.
‘Corinna’s going a Maying’ Hesperides 75: Many a green-gown has been given; / Many a kisse.at give someone a green gown (v.) under green gown, n.
‘Upon Hunks’ Hesperides 201: Huncks ha’s no money (he do’s sweare or say) About him, when the Taverns shot’s to pay.at hunks, n.
‘Upon Cock’ Hesperides 250: Cock calls his Wife his Hen: when Cock goes too’t, / Cock treads his Hen, but treads her under-foot.at go to it (v.) under it, n.1
‘Upon Jone and Jane’ Hesperides 269: Yet Jone she goes / Like one of those / Whom purity has Sainted!at joan, n.
‘The Tythe’ Hesperides 243: If nine times you your Bride-groome kisse; / The tenth you know the Parsons his [...] If children you have ten, Sir John / Won’t for his tenth part ask you one.at Sir John, n.
‘On himselfe’ Hesperides I 15: In her lap too I can lye Melting, and in fancie die.at lap, n.1
‘The Hock Cart’ Hesperides I 135: See, here a Maukin, there a sheet, As spotless pure, as it is sweet.at malkin, n.
‘Epitaph on a sober Matron’ Hesperides 43: One onely daughter [...] which was made a happy Bride, / But thrice three Moones before she dy’d.at moon, n.
‘Love perfumes all Parts’ Hesperides 64: If I kisse Anthea’s brest, / There I smell the Phoenix nest [...] Hands, and thighs and legs, are all / Richly Aromaticall.at phoenix nest, n.
‘His Cavalier’ Hesperides 31: This a virtuous man can doe, / Saile against Rocks, and split them too: / I! and a world of Pikes passe through.at pass the pikes (v.) under pass, v.
‘Upon Sudds a Laundresse’ Hesperides 109: Sudds Launders Bands in pisse; and starches them / Both with her Huband’s, and her own tough steame.at piss, n.
‘Cherry-pit’ Hesperides 17: Julia and I [...] Playing for sport, at Cherry-pit: / She threw; I cast; and having thrown, / I got the Pit, and she the Stone.at pit, n.
‘Saint Distaffs day’ Hesperides 374: If the Maides a spinning goe, / Burne the flax, and fire the tow: / Scorch their plackets, but beware / That ye singe no maiden-haire .at placket, n.
‘Upon Prigg’ Hesperides 165: Prigg, when he comes to houses, oft doth [...] steal from thence old shoes.at prig, n.1
‘Upon Huncks’ Hesperides I 241: Huncks ha’s no money [...] About him, when the Taverns shot’s to pay.at pay one’s shot (v.) under shot, n.1
‘Upon Scobble’ Hesperides 47: Scobble for Whoredome whips his wife; and cryes, / He’ll slit her nose; [...] she replyes, / Good Sir, make no more cuts i’ th’ outward skin, / One slit’s enough to let Adultry in.at slit, n.
‘Twelfe Night’ Hesperides 377: And thus ye must doe / To make the wassaile a swinger.at swinger, n.1
‘Upon Teage’ Hesperides 334: Teage has told lyes so long, that when Teague tells / Truth, yet Teages truths are untruths.at Taig, n.
‘Up tailes all’ Hesperides 291: Begin with a kisse, / Go on too with this [...] This play, be assur’d / Long enough has endur’d [...] For love he doth call For his Uptailes all; / And that’s the part to be acted.at tail, n.
‘Upon Snare, an Usurer’ Hesperides 257: Snare ten i’ th’ hundred calls his wife, and why? / Shee brings in much, by carnall usury.at ten in the hundred (n.) under ten, n.
‘New Yeares Gift’ Hesperides I 174: No newes of Navies burnt at Seas; No noise of late spawn’d Tittyries.at tittery-tu, n.
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