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London and the Countrey Carbonadoed choose

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[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 88: Ale Houses [...] The Hostess [...] must entertaine all, good and bad; Tag, and Rag; Cut and Longtayle.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 101: A French Cooke in the Kitching [...] and blew coates in the Hall.
at bluecoat, n.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 94: The Goldfinders hold the sense of smelling the least of vse, and do not much care for touching the businesse they haue in hand.
at business, n.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 45: The Debtor when prodigality and ill coruses haue procured this Cage.
at cage, n.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 58: They many times do make a bargaine: Hee loues those birds best, that ofnest cast their Feathers: to conclude, he is no Tradesman [...] you shal not scarse finde a dramme of honesty, for a pound of craft.
at feathers, n.1
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 94: The Gold-finders hold the sense of smelling the least of vse, and do not much care for touching the businesse they haue in hand.
at gold-finder (n.) under gold, n.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 88: They must when they Daunce, bee like men that haue the French disease, stiffe in the Hammes.
at ham, n.1
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 12: The middle Ile [of St. Paul’s] is much frequented at noone with a Company of Hungarians, not walking so much for Recreation, as neede.
at hungarian, n.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 36: Land-pirates use to sel that which is none of their own: heere comes many Horses (like Frenchmen) rotten in the ioynts.
at land-pirate (n.) under land, n.3
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 45: The Counters, they teach wandrings Nightingals the way vunto their Nests.
at nightingale, n.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 35: Smithfield. You may haue a faire prospect of this square, Fellow, as you pisse from the streights of Pie-Corner.
at piss, v.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 67: Paris-Garden [...] the swaggering Roarer, the cunning Cheater, the rotten Bawd, the swearing Drunkard, and the bloudy Butcher haue their Rendeuouz here.
at roarer, n.
[UK] D. Lupton London and the Countrey Carbonadoed 52: [They] pray against the decay of their trading. Their chiefest desire is to be well mann’d, and keepe open houses.
at trading, n.
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