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Bartholomew Fair I i: Who would have mark’d such a leap-frog chance now? A very less than ames-ace, on two dice!at ambs-ace, n.
Bartholomew Fair I i: Who would have mark’d such a leap-frog chance now? A very less than ames-ace, on two dice! Bartholomew Fair I iii: littlewit: A fool-John she calls me [...] A fool-John! quarlous: She may call you an apple-John, if you use this.at apple-john (n.) under apple, n.1
Bartholomew Fair V v : You must kiss her o’ the arse, she says.at arse, n.
Bartholomew Fair IV iv: I’ll ne mare, I is e’en as vull as a paiper’s bag, by my troth.at full as..., adj.
Bartholomew Fair III v: Are all fools and asses to this?at ass, n.
Bartholomew Fair II v: Are you under-peering, you baboon?at baboon, n.
Bartholomew Fair V iii: Leander I make a dyer’s son, about Puddle-wharf; and Hero a wench o’ the Bankside.at Bankside lady, n.
Bartholomew Fair II vi: Look into any angle o’ the town — the Straits, or the Bermudas — where the quarrelling lesson is read.at Bermudas, n.
Bartholomew Fair IV v: Here will be ’Zekiel Edgworth, and three or four gallants [...] and I ha’ neither plover nor quail for ’em: persuade this between you two, to become a bird o’ the game.at bird of the game, n.
Bartholomew Fair IV iv: What, Urs’la, an’t be bitch, an’t be bawd, an’t be!at bitch, n.1
Bartholomew Fair IV iii: One Val Cutting [...] a circling boy: with whom your Numps is so taken.at circling boy, n.
Bartholomew Fair III i: Over.: What do you mean, sweet buds of gentility? Cokes: To ha’ my pennyworths out on you, bud.at bud, n.1
Bartholomew Fair III vi: No, I have a very great what-sha-callum, John.at what-shall-call-um, n.
Bartholomew Fair I.iv: I’ll be drawn with a good gib cat through the great pond at home.at whip the cat, v.
Bartholomew Fair III v: We are no catchpoles nor constables.at catchpole, n.
Bartholomew Fair II iii: I mean a child of the horn-thumb, a babe of booty, boy, a cutpurse.at child of the horn-thumb (n.) under child, n.
Bartholomew Fair II iv: Hear for your love, and buy for your money! / A delicate ballad o’ ‘The Ferret and the Coney’; / ‘A Preservative again the Punk’s Evil’. / Another of ‘Goose-green Starch and the Devil’.at cony, n.
Bartholomew Fair I ii: Sir, my mother has had her nativity-water cast lately by the cunning men in Cow-lane, and they ha’ told her her fortune.at cunning man (n.) under cunning, adj.
Bartholomew Fair II iii: Never tusk, nor twirl your dibble, good Jordan, I know what you’ll take to a very drop.at dibble, n.1
Bartholomew Fair II iv: The Windmill blown down by the witch’s fart!at fart, n.
Bartholomew Fair II iv: Hear for your love, and buy for your money! / A delicate ballad o’ ‘The Ferret and the Coney’.at ferret, n.2
Bartholomew Fair in Works (1843) 338: My Fiddle-stick does fiddle in and out too much.at fiddlestick, n.
Bartholomew Fair II v: Not a whit, these fellows were too fine to carry money.at fine, adj.
Bartholomew Fair II v: I’ll see ’em poxed first, and piled, and double piled.at piled (for French velvet), phr.
Bartholomew Fair II v: Will you take any froth and smoke with us?at froth, n.
Bartholomew Fair II v: Ay, ay, gamesters, mock a plain plump soft wench o’ the suburbs, do, because she’s juicy and wholesome.at gamester, n.
Bartholomew Fair V iii: He is extremely beloved of the womenkind, they do so affect his action, the green gamesters that come here.at gamester, n.
Bartholomew Fair I iii: ’Twas a hot night with some of us, last night, John: shall we pluck a hair o’ the same wolf today, Proctor John?at hair of the same wolf (n.) under hair, n.
Bartholomew Fair Ii iii: Hang yourself, hackney-man.at go hang...! (excl.) under hang, v.1
Bartholomew Fair II iv: ’Twas but a little scurvy white money, hang it.at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
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