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A Merrie Play Betwene the Pardoner and the Frere choose

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[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 76: I will not give a straw, I tell you plain, / If that the pie wax could again.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer (1905) 67: But she will go gadding very much / Like an Antony pig with an old witch.
at anthony, n.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 83: Now, by my troth, it is a pretty jape, / For a wife to make her husband her ape.
at ape, n.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 70: But then my wife so oft doth thither resort / That I fear she will make me wear a feather.
at bull’s feather (n.) under bull, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer (1905) 70: For I shall order her, for all her brawling, / That she repent to go a catterwauling.
at caterwaul, v.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 68: Yes, by Cock’s blood, that shall I do. [Ibid.] 69: Therefore I shall beat her by Cock’s mother [...] And I shall beat her, by Cock’s bones. [Ibid.] 71: By Cock’s soul, now, I dare lay a swan. [Ibid.] 72: By Cock’s lylly woundis, that same she is. [Ibid.] 88: Thou shalt repent, by Cock’s lylly nail.
at cock, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 73: What the devil reck I?
at what the devil...?, phr.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 67: But, by Gog’s blood, were she come home [...] I would beat her. [Ibid.] 69: And, by Gog’s body, I tell you true, I shall beat her black and blue.
at gog, n.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer (1905) 78: She and I be sometime aloft, / And I do lie upon her, many a time and oft, / To prove her, yet I could never espy / That ever any did worse with her than I.
at lie on (v.) under lie, v.1
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 87: And had ye no meat, John John?
at meat, n.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 83: Of what thing now dost thou clatter, / John John? or whereof dost thou patter?
at patter, v.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 83: Of what thing now dost thou clatter, / John John? or whereof dost thou patter?
at patter, v.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer (1905) 76: Now a vengeance and a very mischief / Light on the peel’d priest, and on my wife.
at peeled (adj.) under peel, v.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer (1905) 86: But how say you, Sir John, was it good, your pie?
at pie, n.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 75: But, by Cock’s soul, here hath a dog pist.
at piss, v.
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 84: But for your labour, I would that your tackle / Were in a scalding water well sod.
at tackle, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood A Merry Play in Farmer (1905) 68: Walk her coat, John John, and beat her hardly.
at walk, v.
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