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New and Choise Characters n.p.: A Water-Man [...] The Play-houses only keepe him sober; and as it doth many other Gallants, make him an afternoones man.at afternoon man, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: A Water-Man [...] The Play-houses only keepe him sober; and as it doth many other Gallants, make him an afternoones man. New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Chamber-Mayde] If she catch a clap, she diuides it so equally betweene the Maister and the Seruingman, [...] only the knaue Sumner makes her bowle booty, & ouer-reach the Maister.at play booty (v.) under booty, n.1
New and Choise Characters n.p.: A Roaring Boy [...] He sleeps with a tobacco-pipe in’s mouth; and his first prayer i’th’ morning is, hee may remember whom he fell out with ouer-night.at roaring boy, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Canting Rogue] He leaues his children all the world to Cant in, and all the people to their fathers.at cant, v.1
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [An Hypocrite] Like Canters & Gypsies: they are all zeale, no knowledge.at canter, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Canting Rogue] The Northern speech differs from the South, Welch from the Cornish; but Canting is generall, nor euer could be altered by Conquest of the Saxon, Dane, or Norman.at canting, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Canting Rogue] He leaues his children all the world to Cant in, and all the people to their fathers].at canting, adj.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: A Chamber-Mayde [...] If she catch a clap, she divides it so equally betweene the Maister and the Servingman.at clap, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Phantastique] A Scholer he pretends himselfe, and saies hee hath sweat for it: but the truth is, hee knowes Cornelius, farre better than Tacitus.at Mother Cornelius’ tub, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: His Yeoman is the Hangar that a sargeant weares by his side [...] This counter-rat hath a tayle as long as his fellowes, but [...] hath not his full halfe share of the booty.at counter-rat, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Maquerela] Only her beds are most commonly in print: she can easily turne a sempstresse, into a wayting gentlewoman, but her Ward-robe is most infectious, for it brings them to the Falling-sicknes.at falling sickness, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [An Hypocrite] Amongst Dogs, the mange; amongst Horses, the glaunders; amongst Men and Women, the Northerne itch, and the French Ache be diseases.at French, adj.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [An Hypocrite] Amongst Dogs, the mange; amongst Horses, the glaunders; amongst Men and Women, the Northerne itch, and the French Ache be diseases.at itch, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: A Divellish usurer [...] Hee is a man of no conscience; for (like the Jakesfarmer that swouned with going into Bucklersbury) he falles into a cold sweat.at jakes-farmer (n.) under jakes, n.1
New and Choise Characters n.p.: A Maquerela, in plain English, a Bawd, Is an old Char-cole that hath beene burnt her selfe, and therefore is able to kindle a whole greene Coppice.at mackerel, n.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: A Sarjeant [...] the gallowes are his purlues in which the hangman and hee are the quarter rangers, the one turnes of and the other cuts downe.at turn off, v.1
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Chamber-Mayde] She accounts her best time of trading; for a Bawde is like a Medlar, shee’s not ripe, till she be rotten.at rotten, adj.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Canting Rogue] He will not beg out of his limit though hee starue; nor breake his oath if hee sweare by his Salomon, though you hang him.at solomon, n.1
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Puny-clarke] A Clarke of a swooping Dash, is as commendable as a Flanders horse of a large taile.at swapping, adj.
New and Choise Characters n.p.: [A Maquerela] She accounts her best time of trading; for a Bawde is like a Medlar, shee’s not ripe, till she be rotten.at trading, n.
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