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[UK] T. Heywood Captives IV ii: Heare’s a place Though neather of the secretest nor the best, To vnlade my self of this iniquity [a dead body]. [...] Hee’s where hee is in Comons.
at commons, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Captives I i: [of a ‘hee bawde’] [A] flesh-fly whome as soone as the butchers wyves sawe comminge throwghe the shambles, they ... stood with theire flapps in theire hands ... to keepe away his infectious breath least it should fill theire meate with fly-blowes.
at flesh-fly (n.) under flesh, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Captives IV i: Marry, a good motion; farewell and bee hangde.
at hang, v.1
[UK] T. Heywood Captives I ii: Jhon, y’are a Jack sauce, I meane a sawcye Jacke.
at jack sauce (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] T. Heywood Captives I i: Who? the Neapolitan signor? the man-makarel and marchant of madens-fleshe that deals altogether in flawed ware and crackt commodityes?
at mackerel, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Captives I i: The Frenshe monster Neapolitan Seignor, the man-makarel and merchant of madens-fleshe.
at Neapolitan, adj.
[UK] T. Heywood Captives I i: Hee keepes a road in his oune howse wherein have ridd and bin ridd more leakinge vessayles, more panderly pinks, pimps and punkes, more rotten bottoms ballanst, more fly-boates laden and unladen every morninge and evenning tyde then weare able to fill the huge greate baye of Portingall.
at pink, n.
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