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[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: I would not give a rush for a Vice, that has not a wooden dagger to snap at every body he meets.
at not care a rush, v.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News I ii: The butter-box, Buz, the emissary.
at butterbox (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: A rogue, A very canter, I, sir, one that maunds Upon the pad.
at canter, n.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News IV i: Is not this old canting? do you understand him?
at canting, n.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News IV i: mirth.: I wonder they would suffer it; a foolish old fornicating father to ravish away his son’s mistress. [...] tat.: Marry, I would have the old coney-catcher cozen’d of all he has.
at cony-catcher, n.2
[UK] Jonson Staple of News IV i: It was spitefully done of the poet, to make the chuff take him off in his height, when he was going to do all his brave deeds.
at chuff, n.1
[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: What? a clapper-dudgeon! That’s a good sign, to have a beggar follow him so near.
at clapperdudgeon, n.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: You are all cogging Jacks, a covey of wits.
at cog, v.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News I ii: All the world are suitors to her [...] You shall have stall-fed doctors, cramm’d divines, Make love to her.
at stall-fed, adj.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: Hang thee, dog!
at hang!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News V ii: See! the whole covey is scatter’d; ’Ware, ’ware the hawks!
at ware (the) hawk!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News III ii: She had it from a limb o’ the school, she says, a little limb of a nine year old.
at limb, n.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News V i: A fine round head when those two lugs are off.
at lug, n.1
[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: A very canter, I, sir, one that maunds Upon the pad.
at maund on the pad (v.) under maund, v.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News I i: Ods so, some ale and sugar for my founder!
at odso! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: A very canter, I, sir, one that maunds Upon the pad.
at on the pad under pad, n.1
[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: And what plover’s that They have brought to pull?
at plover, n.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News I ii: rob: Had you good sport in your chase to-day? john: O prime!
at prime, adj.
[UK] Jonson Staple of News II i: She is not rigged, sir; setting forth some lady Will cost as much as furnishing a fleet.
at rig, v.1
[UK] Jonson Staple of News IV i: He is some primate metropolitan rascal, Our shot-clog makes so much of him.
at shot-clog (n.) under shot, n.1
[UK] Jonson Staple of News IV i: Let master doctor dissect him, have him opened, and his tripes translated to Lickfinger, to make a probation-dish of.
at tripe, n.1
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