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Of Virgil his Ænis choose

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[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis Dedication to Dvnsayne: I could lay downe heere sundrye examples, were yt not I should bee thoght ouer curious, by prying owt a pimple in a bent.
at pimple in a bent, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis Dedication to Dvnsayne: Leaue too theese doltish coystrels theyre rude rhyming and balduckroom ballads.
at balductum, adj.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis dedication to Dvnsayne: Artaxerxes [...] beeing so much gallopt, bee placed in thee dedicatory epistle receauing a cuppe of water of a swayne, or elles al is not wurth a beane.
at not worth a bean (adj.) under bean, n.1
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis III: Also that Andromachee dooth bed with a countrye man-husband.
at bed, v.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis II: To scorne theyre persons, to blab theyre secrecy priuat.
at blab, v.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis II: A brasse bold merchaunt in causes dangerus hardye.
at brass, n.1
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis III: With whipcat bowling they kept a myrry carousing.
at whip-cat, adj.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis II: A lyer hym neauer may she make, nor cogger unhonest.
at cogger, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis I: With food they summond theyre force: and coucht in a meddow.
at couch, v.
[Ire] Stanyhurst ‘Of A Craking Cvtter’ in Of Virgil his Æneis.
at cutter, n.1
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis IV: A cockney dandiprat hopthumb.
at dandiprat, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis IV: What niddipol hare brayne Would scorne this couenaunt?
at noddipol(e), n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst in Of Virgil his Æneis II: Weene you (blind hodipecks) thee Greekish nauye returned?
at hoddy peak, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst ‘Of A Craking Cvtter’ in Of Virgil his Æneis n.p.: A lofty Thrasonical huf snuffe.
at huff-snuff, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis IV: Dido and thee Troian captayne shal iumble in one den.
at jumble, v.
[Ire] Stanyhurst ‘Of A Craking Cvtter’ in Of Virgil his Æneis (1836) 148: His minion, with carnal wantones itching, Chooste for a freend secret no worse, then a countrye lob heerd swayne.
at lob, n.2
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis VI: What shall I doo therefore? Shall I now, lyk a castaway milkmadge, On mye wooers formoure bee fawning?
at madge, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst ‘Of A Craking Cvtter’ Of Virgil his Æneis n.p.: Thow scuruye peasant, my wiefe th’hast, villen, abused. My bed defiled: lyke a breaklooue mak’bat adultrer.
at make-bate (n.) under make, v.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis III: My mates launcht forward theyre fleete.
at mate, n.1
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis II: A brasse bold merchaunt in causes dangerus hardye.
at merchant, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis IV: Thee woods are noyselesse [...] Thee fields and the catel bee mum.
at mum, adj.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis III: His nodil in crossewise wresting downe droups to the growndward.
at noddle, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis II: This princox in mydst of throng stood unarmed.
at princock, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis III: On a suddeyn we behold a windbeaten hard shrimp, With lanck wan visadge, with rags iags patcherye clowted.
at shrimp, n.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis IV: Now this smocktoy Paris with berdlesse coompanye wayted.
at smock toy (n.) under smock, n.1
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis ded. to Dvnsayne: What thinck you of thee thick skyn, that made this for a fare wel for his mystresse vpon his departure from Abintowne?
at thickskin (n.) under thick, adj.
[Ire] Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis II: A brasse bold merchaunt in causes dangerus hardye [...] certeyn for knauerye to purchase a Tyburne.
at Tyburn, n.
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