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[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress I i: A young green-sickness baggage.
at baggage, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress V i: I am soul-vext, that any mortal eye should see our Customs, and [...] blab them to the wide ear of the world.
at blab, v.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress Act II: Jugg, what’s she but sister to a black-pot.
at black pot (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress IV i: I keep a dozen Journeymen at least [...] yet ’twill not fadge.
at fadge, v.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress I i: One that doth pinch his belly in his life, and starve his own guts to make others feed.
at gut, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress I i: Boyes without beards get boyes, and Girles bear girles, fine little rattle-pates thus high.
at rattle-head, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress IV i: Here’s a clown for hob nailes.
at hobnail, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress V i: By our crests we should be Cousins, for we are both horn’d.
at horn, v.1
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress II i: Could I be in love with any madge, though she were an Howlet, or with any maid, though she look’t like a Malkin.
at Madge Howlet, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress II i: [It is the god of Love, they call him Cupid] [...] Admiral of atmecs, and Monsieur of mutton-lac’d.
at laced mutton (n.) under laced, adj.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress II i: Could I be in love with any madge, though she were an Howlet, or with any maid, though she look’t like a Malkin.
at malkin, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress IV i: Venus, sweet mouse, nay prithee do not chide.
at mouse, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress I i: A pot companion, brother to the glass, That roars in his cups, indeed a drunken Ass.
at pot companion (n.) under pot, n.1
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress II i: And who do you think maintains this princox in his Ponficalibus?
at princock, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress IV i: Father, sweet Hony-sugar-candy dad, indeed, indeed you shall.
at sugar, n.4
[UK] T. Heywood Love’s Mistress IV i: If any of our Nimphs ... buy any commodity by the yard, doe they not wish it long.
at yard, n.1
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