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[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Dii: Oft he commes forth as dronke as a Mouse.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Biiii: Make hast Blaunche Blabbe it out, and come a waye.
at blab, v.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Eii: I haue this daye fylled so many Pottes With all maner wyne, Ale, and Beere: That I wyshed their bealyes full of Bottes.
at bots, n.1
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Eii: By Christ it were best, with might and mayne, To fall to some worke, I sweare a great othe.
at Christ!, excl.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Fi: By coxe bones I wyll make thy skyn rattell.
at cock, n.1
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Ciii: My darlynge, my Conye, my Bryde.
at cony, n.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Fi: Yet I aduyse the[e], thou Cullyon make hast.
at cullion, n.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Eii: A vengeaunce sayde I, lyght on their guttes.
at gut, n.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Bi: Wylt thou then [...] let thy youth unhonestly be spent And do as poor knaues, which Jaxes do scoure.
at jakes, n.1
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child in Dodsley II (1874) 276: Wilt thou [...] To let thy youth unhonestly be spent, / And do as poor knaves, which jaxes do scour?
at jax, n.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Fi: By gys, I sweare, thou brutyshe Beaste.
at by Jis! (excl.) under Jis, n.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Fi: Slaye me with thy knyfe, thou shytten Dastarde.
at shitten, adj.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Dii: Great pytie it were, the Churche shoulde be disordered, By cause that such Swylbowles do not their warkes.
at swill-tub (n.) under swill, n.
[UK] T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Diiii: Yet for all this hath my foolyshe Sonne As wyse a Wodcocke, without any wytte, Despysynge his fathers mynde and opynion, Maryed a wyfe for hym most unfytte.
at woodcock, n.
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