Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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T. Overbury Characters 164: He will venture as desperately upon the Pox as any roaring boy of them all. For when he arrests a whore, himselfe puts her in common baile at his owne perill [...] upon one of the sheriffes custards hee is not so greedy, nor so sharpe set, as at such a stew-pot.at stewpot, n.
T. Overbury ‘A Sergeant’ His Wife with New Characters n.p.: His habit is a long Gowne, made at first to cover his knavery, but that growing too monstrous, hee now goes in Buffe: his Conscience and that, being both cut out of one Hide.at buff, n.1
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