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‘Frauncis New Ligge’ Pepys Ballads (1987) I 227: Now thinks good Master Frauncis [...] he is grafting of hornes vpon my head.at graft, v.1
‘Frauncis New Ligge’ Pepys Ballads (1987) I 227: Now thinks good Master Frauncis [...] he is grafting of hornes vpon my head. ‘The Cuckoo’s Commendation’ in Pepys Ballads (1929) I 95: The nimble fingered barber / That to your chamber comes / To washe your heade and trim your bearde / With water and sweet perfumes: / The while that he’s from home, / His wyfe a freinde may finde, / With balls and casting bottles / For to content hir minde.at balls, n.
‘A Pleasant Country Maying Song’ in Pepys Ballads (1929–32) II 10: Thou at the first I liked well, / Cakes and Creame do make me swell. / This pretty maiden waxeth big: / See what ’tis to play the Rig.at cream, n.1
‘A Pleasant Country Maying Song’ in Pepys Ballads (1929–32) This pretty maiden waxeth big: / See what ’tis ti play the Rig.at rig, n.1
‘John Jarret’ in Pepys Ballads I 170: When you in your shop should be plying your worke, / In some scurvy blinde Alehouse you all day doe lurke.at blind alehouse (n.) under blind, adj.1
‘The Married Woman’s Case’ in Pepys Ballads (1929–32) II 171: A Woman that to a whore-monger is wed, / is in a most desperate case: / She scarce dares performe her duty in bed, / with one of condition so base: / For sometimes hee’s bitten / with Turnbull-street Fleas, / The Pox, or some other infectious disease.at Turnbull Street flea, n.
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