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The Muses Looking-Glass choose

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[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking-Glass II iv: Come, I will send for a whole coach or two of Bankside ladies, and we will be jovial.
at Bankside lady, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking-Glass III iii: Daggs and Pistolls! To bite his thumb at me! Weare I a sword to see men bite their thumbs? Rapiers and Daggers!
at bite one’s/the thumb at (v.) under bite, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking Glass IV iii: Then there is jumping Jude, Heroique Doll, With bouncing Nan, and Cit your worship’s sinner.
at bouncing, adj.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking Glass IV v: I will not stay, but fly [...] the roof will fall and brain me, If I endure to heare his blasphemies.
at brain, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking Glass IV iv: The chuff’s crowns Imprison’d in his trusty chest methinks.
at chuff, n.1
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking-Glass IV iv: I had rather zee him remitted to the jayle, and haue his twelue God-vathers, good men and true, contemne him to the Gallowes.
at godfather, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking-Glass III iii: You are a horned beast, a very cuckold [...] And I did graft your horns.
at graft, v.1
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking-Glass II iv: Think you I meant all that I told your Father? No, ’twas to blind the eyes of the old Huncks.
at hunks, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking-Glass IV iii: There is jumping Jude, heroic Doll, With bouncing Nan, and Cis, your worship’s sinner.
at jump, v.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking Glass IV iii: Tell her, Plus, she must have the Kings Picture too.
at king’s picture(s) (n.) under king, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking-Glass V i: No wanton Jig, I hope, no dance is lawful But Prinkum-Prankum.
at prinkum-prankum, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking Glass IV iv: They talk of wittie discourse and fine conceits, and I ken not what, a deal of prittle-prattle would make a Cat pis to hear ’em.
at prittle-prattle, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking Glass IV iv: A bots take all the red-nose tribe of ’em for Agroicus!
at red-nose (n.) under red, adj.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking Glass IV iii: Sir, here’s Snip the Taylor Charg’d with a riot.
at snip, n.
[UK] T. Randolph Muses’ Looking-Glass III iii: Daggs and Pistolls! To bite his thumb at me! Weare I a sword to see men bite their thumbs? Rapiers and Daggers! – He is the sonne of a Whore.
at sonofabitch, n.
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