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A Fine Companion choose

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[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion III v: I [...] care not a pinne, for all the power of Greece.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion V ii: I was at dice. I came the Caster with some of them I thinke, and I had like to haue made their bones rattle for it.
at bones, n.1
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion V i: How, I your brother? No, I scorne to have affiance with such a conny-catcher: you sir Nessus, deliver up your theft, or I will play Hercules with you.
at cony-catcher, n.1
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion II v: I haue not ready coyne.
at coin, n.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion I iii: For Gamesters and Courtiers haue but little charity.
at gamester, n.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion I vii: Horseleaches, doe you know what you say?
at horse leech (n.) under horse, n.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion IV v: Never none by Ioue.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion III v: Yes marry did I.
at marry!, excl.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion V i: When I have marryed her to the right party [...] he shall marry the next daughter.
at party, n.1
[UK] S. Marmion A Fine Companion II iii: aemi.: O master Carelesse here has beene your Vncle A woing to me. car.: What that peece of stockfish.
at piece of stockfish (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] S. Marmion A Fine Companion III iv: Hee is either trudging now vnto a broaker [...] or else Wandring abroad to skelder for a shilling.
at skelder, v.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion III v: She said I was an old dry stumpe, that had not the least drop of moisture in me.
at stump, n.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion in Dramatic Works (1875) 164: There’s a wench has her suburb tricks about her .
at suburb, n.
[UK] S. Marmion Fine Companion III iv: Heare me honest Trojan.
at Trojan, n.
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