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[UK] Jonson Poetaster III i: Faith sir, your mercer’s booke Will tell you with more patience, then I can.
at mercer’s book, n.
[UK] Jonson Poetaster II i: Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of, before I disbased myself, from my hood and my farthingal, to these bum-rowls and your whalebone bodice [F&H].
at bum-roll (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] Jonson Poetaster V i: What! will the royal Augustus cast away a gentleman of worship, a captain and a commander, for a couple of condemn’d caitiff calumnious cargos.
at cargo, n.1
[UK] Jonson Poetaster I ii: An honest decayed commander, cannot skelder, cheat, nor be seene in a bawdie house, but he shall be straight in one of their wormewood comedies.
at skelder, v.
[UK] Jonson Poetaster I i: There was the mad skeldering captain.
at skelder, v.
[UK] Jonson Poetaster V iii: Teach thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throwe abroad thy spurious Snotteries.
at snottery, n.
[UK] Jonson Poetaster IV vii: ‘They say, he’s valiant’. ‘Valiant? so is mine arse’.
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
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