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The Squire of Alsatia choose

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[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia II i: Nor would I give a fart for any Mathematician.
at not care a fart, v.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: An you mutter one word more, adad I’ll mince you.
at adad!, excl.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia n.p.: Cant List: Alsatia. White-fryers.
at Alsatia, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: He came out of White Fryers; he’s some Alsatian bully.
at Alsatian (adj.) under Alsatia, n.
[UK] Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: I am going to the man you call Crump, who helpeth Sollicitors to Affidavit-men, and Swearers, and Bail.
at bail, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia II ii: A rum nab. It’s a beaver of £5.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia IV i: He is a Ranting Blade, a Royster of the Town.
at blade, n.
[UK] Shadwell Squire of Alsatia [dramatis personae] Captain Hackum. Mr. Bright. A Block-headed Bully of Alsatia; a cowardly, im­pudent, blustring fellow.
at blockheaded, adj.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: What ogling there will be between thee and the blowens!
at blowen, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: What Ogling there will be between thee and the Blowings: Old staring at thy Equipage. And every Buttock shall fall down before thee.
at blowing, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia n.p.: Cant List: A Bolter of White-fryers. One that does but peep out of White-fryers, and retire again like a Rabbit out of his hole.
at bolter, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: You know we were boosy last night; I am a little hot-headed this morning.
at boozy, adj.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia n.p.: Cant List: Bowsy. Drunk.
at bowsy, adj.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia III i: Should I always be kept a country bubble, caravan, a mere put?
at bubble, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: [stage direction] Enter hackum and another Bully.
at bully, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia III i: ’Slife! He has got the Cant too.
at cant, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: He [...] spoke a particular language which such rogues have made to themselves, called canting, as beggars, gipsies, thieves, and gaolbirds do.
at canting, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia Dramatis Personae: captain hackum, a blockheaded bully of Alsatia; a cowardly, impudent, blustering fellow.
at Captain Hackum (n.) under captain, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia III i: As substantial bail as can be wished, for the redemption of our Suffolk caravan.
at caravan, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia Epilogue: Here no Chit chat, here no Tea Tables are.
at chitchat, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: Yes, really, I was clear: for I do not remember what I did, or where I was.
at clear, adj.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia III i: He is a Ruffian, and Cock-bawd to that Hen.
at cock-bawd (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia IV i: Here’s the cole, the ready, the rhino, the darby. I have a lusty cod, old prig.
at lusty cod, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: Coal is, in the language of the witty, money; the ready, the rhino. Thou shalt be rhinocerical, my lad, thou shalt.
at cole, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia IV i: Oh, my pure blowen! my convenient! my tackle!
at convenient, n.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia III i: I’ll talk with him cool in a morning first; perhaps I may redeem him.
at cool, adv.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: Puppy! Owl! Loggerhed! O silly country put!
at country put (n.) under country, adj.
[UK] Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: I am going to the man you call Crump, who helpeth Sollicitors to Affidavit-men, and Swearers, and Bail.
at crump, n.1
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: Pox on him for a damned godly knave, forsooth!
at damned, adv.
[UK] T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia III i: I have ready, rhino, cole, darby.
at darby, n.1
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