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A Book of Roxburghe Ballads choose

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[UK] Brave Eng. Gypsy in Collier Book of Roxburghe Ballads (1847) 185: Our knockers make no noise, We are no roaring boyes.
at roaring boy, n.
[UK] Common Cries of London in Collier Book of Roxburghe Ballads (1847) 215: For many a proper man... Doth leap a leap at Tyburn which makes his neck to crack .
at leap at Tyburn (v.) under leap, v.
[UK] Common Cries of London in Collier Book of Roxburghe Ballads (1847) 213: And some there be ... That pinch the countryman With nimming of a fee .
at pinch, v.
[UK] ‘Sack for My Money’ in Collier Book of Roxburghe Ballads (1847) 180: A maunding cove that doth it love .
at maunding cove (n.) under maund, v.
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