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[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle IV iii: If ye burn, by this flesh I’ll make you drink their ashes in Saint Marget’s ale.
at St Marget’s ale, n.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II iii: John and Tom, Dick and Hodge, Ralph and Robin, William and George, and all my knaues, shall fight like men at Ficket-field.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II i: sir john: Sirrah, dost thou not know that a good-fellow parson may haue a chapel of ease, where his parish Church is farre off? har.: You whorson-stoned vicar!
at chapel of ease (n.) under chapel, n.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II i: You old stale ruffian, you lion of Cotswold .
at Cotswold lion, n.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II i: Cuds bores, master Harpool, I’ll haue one busse too.
at cuds, n.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle III ii: For the credit of Dunstable, ding down the money to-morrow .
at ding, v.1
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle I ii: I haue my Doll, my concubine as ’twere, To frollicke with, a lusty bounsing gerle.
at doll, n.1
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle IV i: Sirrah, dost thou not cog, nor foist, nor slur?
at foist, v.1
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II i: A plump girl. Ha, Doll, ha! Wilt thou forsake the priest, and go with me, Doll?.
at go with, v.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle I ii: In the mean space this remains For kind sir John of Wrotham, honest Jack.
at honest john, n.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II i: har.: You whorson bawdy priest. sir john: You old mutton-monger.
at mutton-monger, n.1
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle V ii: Come, for Lancashire: we must nip the bung for these crowns.
at nip, v.1
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II i: If ever a wolf were clothed in sheep’s coat, Then I am he; old huddle and twang i’ faith .
at old huddle (and twang) (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle I ii: O, but you must not swear; it ill becomes One of your coat to rap out bloody oaths.
at rap, v.1
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle I ii: My fingers’ end do itch To be upon those golden ruddocks.
at ruddock, n.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle I i: Gough, my lord Herbert’s man, is a shitten knave.
at shitten, adj.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle IV i: Give me the dice ’tis I must shred the priest.
at shred, v.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle IV i: Sirrah, dost thou not cog, nor foist, nor slur?
at slur, v.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle V iii: Uds heart, here’s fine work; the hens in the maunger, and the hogs in the litter.
at ud, n.
[UK] Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle V viii: Zooks, do you rob your guests?
at zooks!, excl.
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