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[UK] J. Heywood Sixt Hundred of Epigrams (1867) 217: A byg breecht man fearing a deere yere to cum, / Bestowde in his breeche a cheese hard by his bum.
at bum, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Sixt Hundred of Epigrams (1867) 217: With warde, within warde, that the rattes were as fast, / As though they with theeues in newgate had bene cast.
at Newgate, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Sixt Hundred of Epigrams (1867) 217: Of a number of rattes mistaken for diuelles in a mans sloppes.
at slops, n.1
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