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A Royal Arbor of Loyal Poesie choose

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[UK] T. Jordan ‘The Cheaters Cheated’ in A Royal Arbor 38: Cham come to zee my Lord Major, / And thick as do hang the thieves, / Ch’ve fordgot what vine neames they are, / (A meaxle on them) the zhreeves.
at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘The Cheaters Cheated’ A Royal Arbor 40: [Stay, prethe who comes here? A gaping countrey Clown] nim.: Ne’re men till now / Were gull’d by such a Costard. fil.: If we meet, I vow / Wee’l bang the bacon bastard black and blew.
at bacon, n.1
[UK] T. Jordan ‘A Canting Rogue Paralled with a Phanatick’ in A Royal Arbor 71: A Tinker and his Doxy in a den / Of Filchers, which they call the bowsing ken.
at bousing-ken, n.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘The Cheaters Cheated’ A Royal Arbor 35: Good morrow, fellow Filcher / What! do we sink or swim? / Thou look’st so like a pilcher.
at filcher, n.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘The Cheaters Cheated’ in A Royal Arbor 36: Our fly trappanning trade, / Maintain’d with so much fury, / Is openly bewray’d [...] They do grow cunninger than we, / And do trapan trappanners.
at fly, adj.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘A Canting Rogue Parallel’d with a Phanatick’ in A Royal Arbor 71: Thus is poor Colter poison’d with a drench / Made of Law Latin, and low Pedlar’s French.
at pedlar’s French, n.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘A Canting Rogue Parallel’d with a Phanatick’ in A Royal Arbor 71: Nurs’d by a maunding mort, whose mother tongue / Directs him first the way to nipp a bung, / And mill the lower.
at lour, n.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘A Canting Rogue Parallel’d with a Phanatick’ in A Royal Arbor 71: Nurs’d by a maunding mort, whose mother tongue / Directs him first the way to nipp a bung.
at maunding cove (n.) under maund, v.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘The Cheaters Cheated’ A Royal Arbor 35: Good morrow, fellow Filcher / What! do we sink or swim? / Thou look’st so like a pilcher.
at pilcher, n.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘The Cheaters Cheated’ Royal Arbor 35: nim.: Good morrow, fellow Filcher / What! do we sink or swim? / Thou look’st so like a pilcher. filch.: Good morrow fellow Nim. / The devils in our destiny, / I cannot get a pluck.
at pluck, v.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘A Canting Rogue Parallel’d with a Phanatick’ in A Royal Arbor 71: A language which admits no derivation [...] Prigging Prancers, Tipping Nab’s, and such / Phrases as make the slovenly Low Dutch / A polite dialect.
at prigger of prancers (n.) under prigger, n.1
[UK] T. Jordan ‘Cheaters Cheated’ A Royal Arbor 38: Cham come away the rather, / ’Cause ch’ave got a wench with childe.
at wench, n.
[UK] T. Jordan ‘The Cheaters Cheated’ in Royal Arbor 39: Zooks! what have they got there?
at zooks!, excl.
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