1640 H. Mill Nights Search letter by Nabbs: This Subject handled by a Blade oth’ times, That knows to court his lasse in bawdy rimes.at blade, n.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 53: Come my little Pander [...] Go on my bully, as thou hast begun; Ile pay thee bravely, when thy worke is done.at bully, n.1
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 127: Now when this whore does want a man of worth To keepe her brave, she’ll send her Pander forth (Pray call him Captaine).at captain, n.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 255: This strumpet had been chaffring with her ware; If she could trade, with whom she did not care.at charver, v.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search n.p.: I never in my life was in a Stews: / Nor ever visited a house of sinne, / Unlesse to cure the grinkhams they were in.at crinkum, n.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 32: Thou hast undone me! [...] Thou hedge-bird trull!at hedge-bird (n.) under hedge, adj.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 28: To Bridewell she is brought, (She calls it Hell) for there she must be taught To turne the mill, or beat hemp.at hell, n.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 52: For I do use her, as a hooke and line To catch Iack-simple.at jack, n.2
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 56: The Canibal when he saw a stranger saw, He strangely entertain’d him in his maw.at maw, n.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search letter by Collett: A knot of Night-fowles. [Ibid.] 39: There are such nests of night-birds in all places.at nightbird (n.) under night, n.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 76: We are undone: for P: hath seiz’d upon us With violence, to take our teeth quite from us.at p, n.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search letter by Chamberlain: There’s not a drunkard, filthy quean, or scum, That’s left unpunisht.at quean, n.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search letter by Champernowne n.p.: Those that are rotten-ripe, Drop down before thee.at rotten, adj.
1640 H. Mill Nights Search letter by Brewer: Some punke, Some bawd half-stew’d, some snuffing pander drunk.at stewed, adj.1
1640 H. Mill Nights Search I 57: She askt him strait, What wench he’d please to have; one young or old.at straight, adv.