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[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie G2: I dare chalenge thee to [...] play [...] at [...] blindman buffe.
at play at blindman’s buff (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie G2: I dare chalenge thee to [...] play [...] at hot-cockles, leape-frogge, or blindman buffe.
at play (at)..., v.
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie F3: For [...] Cardes, or Dice, To those exploits he euer stands prepar’d: A Villaine excellent at a Bum card.
at bum card (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie F1: His journey is in Paules [...] Some other time stumbling on wealthy Chuffes, Worth gulling, then he swaggers all in huffes.
at chuff, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie G2: Tush, Cloth-breech doth deride him with a laugh, And lets him see Bone-paster; thats his staffe: Then tells him brother, friend, or so forth, heare ye T’is not your knitting-needle makes me feare ye.
at knitting needle, n.
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie D: Others iudge his state to be no higher, Then a Dogges yeoman, or some Pippin Squier.
at pippin-squire, n.
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie F3: His Spectacles doe in copper case, Hang dangling neere about his pissing place.
at pissing place, n.
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie C: Then doth he diue into his sloppes profound, Where not a poore port-cullice can be found.
at portcullis, n.
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie G: Or else heele haue it with a fiue and a reach, Although it cost his necke the Halter stretch.
at stretch, v.
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie F: I thinke the Stuffe is namelesse he doth weare, But what so ere it be, it is huge geare.
at stuff, n.
[UK] Rowlands Humours Ordinarie C: This same poyson-steeped India weede, In head, hart, lungs, doth soot and cobwebs breede.
at weed, n.1
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