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Poems, or, A miscellany of sonnets, satyrs, drollery, panegyricks, elegies, &c. at the instance, and request of several friends, times, and occasions, composed, and now at their command collected, and committed to the press choose

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[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 42: You shall have Wine too, and when bottles fail, / You shall be sure of humming Ale.
at humming ale, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 18: He got your Holland, and gave You the bag.
at give someone the bag (v.) under bag, n.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 8: Like that desperate Dick / Will have none do the trick / With his Wife, but a Gentleman.
at dick, n.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 53: See the pot Valour here (Porter) I fear, / That you have somewhat more than you can bear.
at pot-valiant (adj.) under pot, n.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 29: In somethings (Sirs) they [i.e. whores] are too deep for You. / You are but Fresh men in the French disasters.
at something, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 8: Like that desperate Dick / Will have none do the trick / With his Wife, but a Gentleman.
at do the trick (v.) under trick, n.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 116: I would to a Conduit bring, This crackt, and crasie, horn-mad thing, And souce Him for a spirit.
at cracked, adj.
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 13: The Popinjay one Fuddle had before.
at fuddle, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 12: And so at sixes and sevens they both drank on, That e’re they went away, they were quite gone.
at gone, adj.1
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 116: But He’s such a Knave in grain.
at knave in grain, n.
[UK] M. Stevenson Poems 111: Nor are you Lilly like, but sallow, And sappy-countenanc’d.
at sappy, adj.
[UK] M. Stevenson ‘The Quakers Wedding’ in Poems 79: We can marry of our own accord, Like Jack and Gill, but leaping cross a Sword; But against Parties coupled on this wise, Westminster Weddings will in Judgment Rise, That they should stumble, and pretend such light! They marry wrong, and call’t a Marriage Rite.
at Westminster wedding (n.) under Westminster, n.
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