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[UK] Song of the Beggar in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 14: Still doe I cry, good your Worship good sir, / Bestow one small Denire, Sir / And bravely at the bousing Ken / Ile bouse it all in Beere, Sir.
at bousing-ken, n.
[UK] Song of the Beggar 15: My dainty Dals, my Doxis, / Whene’er they see me lacking, / Without delay, poore wretches they / Will set their Duds a packing.
at duds, n.1
[UK] Song of the Beggar in Dodsley (1826) 15: If a Gentry Cove be comming, / Then straight it is our fashion, / My Legge I tie, close to my thigh, / To move him to compassion.
at gentry-cove (n.) under gentry, n.
[UK] Rum-Mort’s Praise of Her Faithless Maunder in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 36: Duds and cheats thou oft hast won.
at duds, n.1
[UK] Rum-Mort’s Praise of Her Faithless Maunder in Dodsley (1826) 36: Grannam ever fill’d my sack / With lap and poplars held I tack.
at lap, n.2
[UK] Rum-Mort’s Praise of Her Faithless Maunder in Dodsley (1826) 36: Redshanks then I could not lack, / Ruff peck still hung on my Back.
at ruff peck, n.
[UK] Rum-Mort’s Praise of Her Faithless Maunder in Dodsley (1826) 36: Grannam ever fill’d my sack / With lap and poplars held I tack.
at poplars, n.
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