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[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty V i: One glass of sack or cup of nappy.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III iii: There were many country lobs that, having surfeited on the glory-bacon of their milkmaids’ favours, were fain to repair to the next alehouse for purgations.
at bacon, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty I ii: When the purse is full, the pouch gapes; and when the pouch has its bellyful, the great chest yawns.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty IV ii: Holy brother, let’s away to bo-peep, we shall be seen else.
at play at bo-peep (v.) under bo-peep, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty II v: They zay one gaffer Aristotle was the first vounder of it, a bots on him!
at bots, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: I’ll stand the pad [...] Nip bungs, dupp gibbers leager, louse and bouse.
at bouse, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: By lusty doxies, there’s not a quire cove, Nobler than I in all the bousing kens That are ’twixt Hockly-i’-th’-hole and Islington.
at bousing-ken, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty II v: Ergo, you have brought your hogs to a fair market!
at bring one’s hogs to a fair market (v.) under bring, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty V i: This cross-legged infelicity, sharper than my needle, makes me eat my own cabbage.
at cabbage, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: If her ploud be but up twice and once, her will tug out her sword, and, gads nigs! let her take very many heed, her will carbonado very much legs and arms.
at carbonado, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: By these good stampers, upper and nether duds; I’le nip from Ruffmans of the Harmanbeck, Though glimmer’d in the fambles, I cly the chates.
at chats, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty II i: Have I not here a good cudgel? if thou do, thou shalt be clapper-de-clawed.
at clapperclaw, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty II i: And you, goodman Clodpole, old snail with a slimy nose.
at clodpoll, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty IV iii: Well, sir, you may abuse me; but by cock and pie (God forgive me that I should swear), were I as young as I have been—.
at cock and pie! (excl.) under cock, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty IV iii: Now he is rich, he will have the best and plumpest cockatrice of the city.
at cockatrice, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III iii: The wenches I’ll tumble and merrily jumble, Together we’ll dance a clatter-de-pouch.
at dance, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty IV i: This is a rascal deserves to ride up Holborn, And take a pilgrimage to the triple tree, To dance in hemp Derrick’s coranto: Let’s choke him with Welsh parsley.
at dance, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: Darkmans for pannum Should the grand Ruffian come to mill me, I Would scorn to shuffle from my poverty.
at darkmans, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty I i: They say this same gaffer Phœbus is a good mountebank [...] But a deuce on him, it does not seem so.
at deuce, n.2
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty II iv: How shall we resist this warlike Amazon, the valiantest of all tinkers’ trulls and doxies.
at doxy, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III iii: Tell him Madam Kate is as sound as a kettle [...] she is skimming her milk-bowls and melting her dripping-pans as busy as a body-louse.
at dripping pan, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty IV iii: O, good morrow, Old duck, old Helen!
at duck, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: By these good stampers, upper and nether duds; I’le nip from Ruffmans of the Harmanbeck, Though glimmer’d in the fambles, I cly the chates.
at duds, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: I’ll stand the pad [...] Nip bungs, dupp gibbers leager, louse and bouse.
at dup the jigger (v.) under dup, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty V i: Had I the palsy [...] ague, fever, French pox, and a whole cart-load of diseases.
at French pox (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: If her ploud be but up twice and once, her will tug out her sword, and, gads nigs! let her take very many heed, her will carbonado very much legs and arms.
at gadsnigs! (excl.) under gad, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: By these good stampers, upper and nether duds; I’ll nip from Ruffmans of the Harmanbeck, Though glimmer’d in the sambles, I cly the chates.
at glim, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty IV iii: Nay, take her to yourself, old impudent goat.
at goat, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty IV iii: Alas! poor granam, dost thou grieve because thou wantest money to go drink with thy gossips!
at grannam, n.2
[UK] T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: By these good stampers, upper and nether duds; I’le nip from Ruffmans of the Harmanbeck, Though glimmer’d in the fambles, I cly the chates.
at harman, n.
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