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The Roaring Girle, or, Moll Cut-Purse choose

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[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle I i: Wipe thy bum with testons, and make ducks and drakes with shillings.
at ducks and drakes, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: Tearcat what are you? a wild rogue, an angler, or a ruffler?
at angler, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle III ii: I cannot abide these apron husbands; such cotqueanes!
at apron husband (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle IV ii: Make up the money I had a hundred pound, And take your bellyful of her.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: A ben cove, a brave cove, a gentry cuffin.
at bene cove (n.) under bene, adj.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: I’ll [...] drink ben bouse, and eat a fat gruntling cheat, a cackling cheat, and a quacking cheat.
at bene bouse (n.) under bene, adj.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: A gage of ben rom-bouse [...] Is benar then a caster, / Peck, pennam, lap, or popler.
at bene, adj.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: Avast to the pad, let us bing.
at bing, v.1
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle I i: My father fetches his by-blows to hit me!
at by-blow, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: We are boiled, pox on her!
at boil, v.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: My own father, Dapper Sir Davy, laid these London boot-halers, the catchpolls, in ambush to set upon me.
at boot-haler, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: These gentlemen bestows upon you two boards and a half, that’s two shillings sixpence.
at bord, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle III iii: The duck that sits is the bouncing ramp, that roaring girl, my mistress.
at bouncing, adj.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: O I wud lib all the lightmans [...] And couch till a palliard docked my dell, / So my bousy nab might skew rom-bouse well.
at bousy, adj.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: Thou lookest like a strange creature, a fat butter-box, yet speakest English.
at butterbox (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: I’ll [...] drink ben bouse, and eat a fat gruntling cheat, a cackling cheat, and a quacking cheat.
at cackling-cheat, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: Else trine me on the cheats – hang me.
at chats, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: I’ll [...] drink ben bouse, and eat a fat gruntling cheat, a cackling cheat, and a quacking cheat.
at grunting-cheat, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: I’ll [...] drink ben bouse, and eat a fat gruntling cheat, a cackling cheat, and a quacking cheat.
at quacking cheat, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: You your self shall cant Better then poor Moll can, and know more laws Of cheaters, lifters, nips, foysts, puggards, curbers, With all the devil’s blackguard, than it’s fit Should be discovered to a noble wit.
at cheator, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: No indeed Captain Moll, for I know you by sight I am no such nipping Christian.
at nipping Christian, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle II ii: What dost thou go a-hawking after me with a red clout on thy finger?
at clout, n.1
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: There’s a cloyer, or snap, that dogs any new brother in that trade, and snaps will have half in any booty.
at cloyer, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle III ii: ’Tis one of Hercules’ labours to tread one of these city hens, because their cocks are still crowing over them.
at cock, n.3
[UK] Middleton & Dekker The Roaring Girle III ii: I cannot abide these apron husbands; such cotqueanes!
at cotquean, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: Then we’ll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans.
at couch a hogshead (v.) under couch, v.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: O I wud lib all the lightmans. O I woud lib all the darkmans [...] And scour the queer cramp ring, And couch till a palliard docked my dell.
at couch, v.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: You your self shall cant Better then poor Moll can, and know more laws Of cheaters, lifters, nips, foysts, puggards, curbers, [...] than it’s fit Should be discovered to a noble wit.
at curber, n.
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: Cut benar whids, and hold your fambles and your stamps.
at cut bene whids (v.) under cut, v.1
[UK] Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i : My dainty wilde del, with all whom I’le tumble this next darkmans in the strommel.
at darkmans, n.
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