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Sir Hercules Buffoon, or, The Poetical Squire choose

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[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon III ii: fi.: Thou mun play at Rumpscuttle and Clapperdepouch with me, my Honey .
at play (at)..., v.
[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon IV ii: ald.: Bumper! prethee what’s a Bumper? sq.: For shame Uncle, not know what a Bumper is! Bumper is the Parnassus word for a Beer Glass top full.
at bumper, n.2
[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon IV iii: O let me kiss and clip, and hug thee!
at clip, v.1
[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon II ii: A fop is the fruit of a foplin, as a Wit is the kernel of a witlin.
at foplin, n.
[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon III iii: I am so plagued with Citizens, that I cannot have a Deer that’s mans meat, but they steal it out of my Park, my Lord.
at meat, n.
[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon V iii: jud.: The roguish bargain he put upon me, of two Brace of Deer out of Whetstones Park; it seems a Park of Baudy-houses: Rogue! Rogue! [...] sq.: My Lord, I’ll take that bargain off your hands; I’ll give you two brace of Fallow Deer for your two brace of Whetstone.
at Whetstone Park deer (n.) under Whetstone Park, n.
[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon III ii: fi.: Thou mun play at Rumpscuttle and Clapperdepouch with me, my Honey , [...] play at Clapperdepouch, my Honey Bearn; Clapperd pouch, Clapperdepouch.
at pouch, n.
[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon V iii: Another Clap! his old Fellow has been a Swinger in’s days.
at swinger, n.3
[UK] J. Lacy Sir Hercules Buffoon II iv: She’s as ugly as she’s old: a man with all his neighing youth about him wou’d not touch her with a Pair of Tongs.
at wouldn’t touch it with a pair of tongs under touch, v.1
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