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Devil is an Ass choose

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[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass III iii: There’s an old debt of forty, I ga’ my word. For one is run away to the Bermudas [F&H].
at Bermudas, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II ii: O, bird, Could you do this? ’gainst me! and at this time now!
at bird, n.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II ii: Away, you broker’s block, you property!
at block, n.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: Commend my service to my lady Tailbush.
at bush, n.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: This way, wife. Up to thy gallery, do, chuck.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass I i: I will teach thee [to] cheat, child, to cog, lie and swagger.
at cog, v.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II iii: I think he has dogg’d me to the house.
at dog, v.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II iii: Such a mistress of behaviour, She knows from the duke’s daughter to the doxy, What is their due just, and no more!
at doxy, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: It creaks his engine.
at engine, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass V iv: Fough! what a steam of brimstone Is here!
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass V iii: If you be such a one, sir, I will leave you, To your godfathers in law: Let twelve men work.
at godfather, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass I i: I will teach thee [...] To swear by Gogs-nowns, like a lusty Juventus.
at gog, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: I will not bate a Harrington of the sum.
at Harrington, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass I i: Carmen Are got into the yellow starch, and chimney sweepers To their tobacco, and strong waters, Hum, Meath and Obarni.
at hum, n.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass in Dramatic Works (1811) 481: Laugh’d at, sweet bird! Is that the scruple? come, come, Thou art a niaise .
at nias, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: Not all so wise as some true politic wife Would be; [...] having matched with such a nupson.
at nupson, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: Why is all this rigging and fine tackle, mistress, If no your neat handsome vessels, of good sail, Put not forth [...] Abroad into the world?
at rigging, n.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass III i: But there’s not so much gold in all the Row.
at Row, the, n.
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass I i: We will survey the Suburbs, and make forth our sallies, Downe Petticoat-lane, and up the Smock-alleys, To Shoreditch, Whitechappel, and so to Saint Katherns’.
at smock alley (n.) under smock, n.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: Why is all this rigging and fine tackle, mistress, If your neat handsome vessels, of good sail, Put not forth [...] Abroad into the world?
at tackle, n.1
[UK] Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: Commend my service to my lady Tailbush.
at tail, n.
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