c.1560 ‘Dialogue Btwn the Common Secretary & Jealousy’ in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. I 15: She that is fair, lusty and young, / And can commune in terms with defiled tongue, / And will abide whispering in the ear, / Think ye her tail is not light of the sear.at tail, n.
1615 Work for Cutlers in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. 7: Did you never hear of Cutting Dick.at cutting Dick (n.) under cutting, n.
1641 Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 4: Their buttocks walk up and down the Fair very demurely.at buttock, n.
1641 Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 5: Showing his art of Legerdemain to the admiration and astonishment of a company of cockloaches.at cockloche, n.
1641 Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 5: Among these you shall see a gray goose-cap [...] stand in his booth.at goose-cap (n.) under goose, n.4
1641 Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 4: It is his [i.e. a pickpocket’s] high harvest, which is never bad, but when his cart goes up Holborn.at walk (backwards) up Holborn Hill (v.) under Holborn Hill, n.
1641 Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 6: These unconscionable exactions [...] made that angle of the Fair too hot for my company.at hot, adj.
1641 Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 4: If you take not heed of them [i.e. whores] they will give you fairings with the pox.at pox, n.1
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 14: By frequently [...] practising with the rooks, I went my share in a bubbling.at bubbling, n.1
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 16: Least [...] he might be snatched out of our hands, by some other Craftsby.at craftsby, n.
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 14: The next thing he taught me, was to game.at game, v.
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 15: After I struck a gudgeon, I was sure to hold him, though i suffered him to play a little in the stream.at gudgeon, n.
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 43: Your high-pads do always keep their station upon your greatest and most beaten roads.at high pad (n.) under high, adj.1
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 23: I met with three or four of my old acquaintance, Knights of the Road.at knight of the road, n.
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 14: He [...] made me so proficient at it [i.e. cheating], that I could nick the nicker sometimes.at nick, v.1
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 21: I was generally known as an expert Nicker.at nicker, n.1
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. [title]: Jackson’s Recantation or, the Life and Death of the Notorious High-way-man Now hanging in Chains at Hampstead. Delivered to a Friend a little before Execution; Wherein is truly discovered the whole Mystery of that Wicked and Fatal profession of padding on the Road.at padding, n.1
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. She left me something that was none of my own, a swinging clap, which laid me up in pickle above six weeks before I was cured.at in pickle (adj.) under pickle, n.
1674 Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. 15: The poor cully was [...] wheedled into play.at wheadle, v.
1675 Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 10: He is [...] A Baboon usurping Human Shape; or (to use his own silly nasty Phrase) Mine A-se all over.at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
1675 Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 6: Cursing his Doctor for a Quacking Bastard, that understands a Gentleman’s Disease no more than a Farrier.at bastard, n.
1675 Character of a Town-gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 4: Thence he posted to one of the Inns of Court, but [...] never read six Lines in Littleton, for he loved a Placket better than a Moot-case, and was more in his Mercer’s Books than in Cokes.at mercer’s book, n.
1675 Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 5: He says [...] Law a thing fit only for Draggle-tailed Gown-men, that have no way of raising a Fortune.at draggle-tailed, adj.
1675 Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 6: Cursing his Doctor for a Quacking Bastard, that understands a Gentleman’s Disease no more than a Farrier.at gentleman’s disease (n.) under gentleman’s, n.
1675 Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 1: A Miss is a Name, which the Civility of this Age bestows on one, that our unmannerly Ancestors call’d Whore and Strumpet.at miss, n.1
1675 Character of a Town Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 7: An Old Trot, that understands the Town, and goes between Party and Party, and a French Merchant to supply her with Dildo’s.at trot, n.1
1675 Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 2: Covent Garden, Silk-Gowns, and Wapping Wastcoatiers, are equally his Game.at waistcoateer, n.
1680 Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. 2: She is a caterpillar that destroys many a hopeful Young Gentleman in the Blossom.at caterpillar, n.1
1680 Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 2: She is [...] a Parsons comfortable Importance.at comfortable importance (n.) under comfortable, adj.
1680 Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 1: She [i.e. a whore] is an excellent Conveniency for those that have more Money than Wit.at convenient, n.