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Martin Mark-all Beadle of Bridewell His Defence and Answere to the Bellman of London choose

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[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 37: He maunds Abram, he begs as a madde man.
at abram, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 36: Abram madde.
at abram, adj.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 7: Here one complaines that hee [...] could not quietly take their rest in the night, nor keepe his Autem, or doxie sole vnto himselfe.
at autem mort (n.) under autem, adj.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 37: Autem the Church.
at autem, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 39: What maund doe you beake, what kind of begging vse you?
at beak, v.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 39: Lybbeg a bedde.
at lib-beg, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: O Ben mort wilt thou pad with me, / One ben slate shall serue both thee & me.
at bene mort (n.) under bene, adj.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 43: Then binge we to the bowsing ken.
at bing, v.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 37: A Bite, secreta ( ) mulierum.
at bite, n.2
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 12: Here to finde out a Knaue picking open a locke by the helpe of his black Arte.
at black art (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 23: Hauing little or no other water [...] dooth so worke within their bodies, such a distemperature, that thereof proceedeth a marueilous lumpishnesse and melancholy blockishnesse.
at blockish (adj.) under block, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 19: Being so taken, haue beene carried to places of correction, there woefully tormented by Blew-coates.
at bluecoat, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 37: Halfe a Boord, sixepence.
at half-(a-)bord(e) (n.) under bord, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 59: They be merry in euery Bousing Ken or Alehouse.
at bousing-ken, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 9: Nicholas Chatbourne, the bowsie bagbearer.
at bousy, adj.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 14: A bowsie bawdie miser.
at bowsy, adj.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: The quire coues are budgd to the bowsing ken, / As Romely as a ball [...] Out budgd the Coue of the Ken, / With a ben filtch in his quarr’me.
at budge, v.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: For all the Rome coues are budgd a beake.
at budge a beak (v.) under budge, v.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 39: The Buffa peckes me by the stampes.
at bufe, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 40: The muggill will tip you fat scraps and glorious bits, the Beadle will well bumbast you.
at bumbaste, v.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 37: A Cuttle bung, a knife to cut a purse.
at cuttle-bung, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: My bong, my lowre, & fambling cheates / Shall be at thy command.
at bung, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 37: Bung is now vsed for a pocket, heretofore for a purse.
at bung, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all II 57: The first that inuented this new fellowship was one Giles Hather: he carried about with him his whore called Kyt Calot which was termed the Queene of Egypties.
at callet, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 47: He continued a wandring rogue [...] hee was known to all the damned crew for a boone companion, and therefore chosen as the fittest for their Captaine.
at captain, n.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 41: To tower or Castell to see. [Ibid.] 43: O ben mort Castle out & Towre, / Where all the Roome coues slopne that we may tip the lowre.
at castell, v.
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: My Caster and Commission shall serue us both to maund.
at caster, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 30: This Lawrence had beene [...] cast out of seruice, and so was faine to liue among the wicked, sometimes a stander for the padder, sometimes a verser for the cony-catcher, sometimes a stale for a foyst, but most commonly an Apple-squire for a trudging house. [Ibid.] 31: Your idle vagabonds [...] bee robbers by the high waies, cousoners and cony-catchers, that liue by their wits.
at cony-catcher, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 5: Hauing gathered together a Conuocation of Canting Caterpillars, as wel in the North parts at the Diuels arse apeake, as in the South.
at caterpillar, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Martin Mark-all 37: Chates, the Gallowes: here he mistakes both the simple word, because he found it printed, not knowing the true originall thereof, and also in the compound; as for Chates it should be Cheates, which word is vsed generally for things, as Tip me that Cheate, Giue me that thing: so that if you will make a word for the Gallous, you must put thereto this word Treyning, which signifies hanging; and so Treyning Cheate is as much to say, hanging things, or the Gallous, and not Chates.
at chats, n.1
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