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The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions and Certain Satyres choose

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[UK] Marston ‘Ad Rythmum’ Satyres II E1: But if you hang an arse like Tubered / When Chremes dragg’d him from his brothell bed, / Thence hence base ballad stuffe.
at hang an arse under arse, n.
[UK] Marston ‘Humours’ Satyres III H7: Did euer any man ere heare him talke / But of Pick-hatch, or some Shorditch baulke.
at bulker, n.1
[UK] Marston Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Satyre 2 48: Which I am sure is all thou brought’st from France, Saue Naples poxe.
at Naples canker, n.
[UK] Marston ‘Fronti nulla sides’ Satyres I B6: To his owne sprouts, marke, his rank drops distill / Foule Naples canker in their tender rinde.
at Naples canker, n.
[UK] Marston ‘Ad Rythmum’ Satyres II E1: As willingly come mete and iumpe together, / As new ioyn’d loues, when they doe clip each other.
at clip, v.1
[UK] Marston Satyres II 75: A well fac’d Gentleman ... paceth like a Cyprian.
at Cyprian, n.
[UK] Marston Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Satyre 1 28: I’le not endure that with thine instrument (Thy Gambo violl plac’d betwixt thy thighes, Wherein the best part of thy courtship lyes) [...] Come, now let’s heare thy mounting Mercurie, What mum? giue him his fiddle once againe, Or he’s more mute than a Pythagoran.
at fiddle, n.1
[UK] Marston Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Satyre 1 34: Thou that did’st march with Spanish Pike Come with French-pox out of that brothell dore.
at French pox (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] Marston ‘To Detraction’ Satyres I A3: My spirit is not huft vp with fatte fume / Of slimie Ale, nor Bacchus heating grape.
at grape, n.1
[UK] Marston Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Satyre 4 72: When strong backt Hercules [...] Rob’d fifty wenches of virginity. Farre more then lusty Laurence.
at lusty lawrence, n.
[UK] Marston ‘Hem nosti’n’ Satyres II E6: One must invocate some lose-legg’d dame, / Some brothell drab.
at loose-legged (adj.) under loose, adj.
[UK] Marston ‘In Lectores’ Satyres I B: Each quaint fashion-monger, whose sole repute / Rests in his trim gay clothes.
at -monger, sfx
[UK] Marston ‘Hem nosti’n’ Satyres II E7: The witlesse sence / Of these odde naggs; whose pates circumference / Is fild with froth!
at nag, n.
[UK] Marston Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Satyre I 35: Welcome from Netherland, from steaming stew.
at Netherlands, n.
[UK] Marston Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Satyre I 23: Crowne my head with Bayes, Which like a Paphian, wantonly displayes The Salaminian titillations, Which tickle vp our leud Priapians .
at Paphian, n.
[UK] H. Fitzgeffrey Satyres n.p.: [He] late returned ... A compleat Linguist: skilfull in the Dutch. And more (if you knew all) for wot yee what? In the Low-cuntry’s hee the French hath got.
at French, n.
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