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Elynour Rummynge: famous Ale-Wife of England choose

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[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 102: She breweth noppy ale.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 17: Droupy and drowsy, Scurvy and lowsy; Her face all bowsy.
at bowsy, adj.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 75: With a whym wham, Knyt with a trym tram, Vpon her brayne pan.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 346: Ye callettes, I shall breke your palettes, Wythout ye now cease!
at callet, n.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 143: Some with a sho clout Bynde theyr heddes about.
at clout, n.1
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 223: He calleth me [...] his conny His swetyng and his honny.
at cony, n.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 515: In came another dant, With a goose and a gant.
at dant, n.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 538: Than sterte forth a fysgygge And she brought a bore pygge.
at fizgig, n.1
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 480: She drank so of the dregges, The dropsy was in her legges [...] All foggy fat she was.
at foggy, adj.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 223: He calleth me his whytyng [...] His swetyng and his honny.
at honey, n.1
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 4: Tell you I chyll [...] Of a comely gyll That dwelt on a hyll.
at jill, n.1
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 134: Some huswyves come unbrased, Wyth theyr naked pappes, That flyppes and flappes.
at paps, n.1
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 373: She pyst where she stood.
at piss, v.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 568: Any wyth that she begynnes The pot to her plucke, And dranke a good lucke. She swynged up a quarte At ones for her parte.
at swinge, v.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 366: Lo, here is an olde typpet, And ye wyll gyve me a syppet Of your stale ale.
at tippet, n.1
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 492: There came an old rybybe; She halted of a kybe, And had broken her shyn At the threshold comying in, And fell so wyde open That one myght see her token.
at token, n.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge (rev. edn) in Harleian Misc. I (1744–46) 476: Our pots were full quarted, We were not thus thwarted, With froth-canne and nick-pot.
at nick-pot (n.) under nick, n.2
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge (rev. edn) in Harleian Misc. I (1744–46) 478: Your pipes and your smoakes.
at smoke, n.
[UK] Skelton Elynour Rummynge (rev. edn) in Harleian Misc. I (1744–46) 477: My countrymens cases With fiery-smoak faces, Sucking and drinking, A filthie weede stinking.
at weed, n.1
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