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Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespeare’s Youth choose

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[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 95: They continue [...] swilling and gulling, night and day, till they be as drunke as apes.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 67: They satte thei swillyng, and carousyng one to an other, till tei were bothe dronke as Rattes.
at drunk as a rat, adj.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 69: Beware, therefore, you masking Players, [...] you double dealing ambodexters, be warned.
at ambidexter, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 16: Every one, tagge and ragge, goe brauer, or, at least, as braue as those that be bothe noble, honourable and worshipfull.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 114: As though this pillage and pollage were not rapacious enough, they take in and inclose commons, moores, heaths. [...] Take heed, therefore, you riche men that pill and poll the poore.
at pill and poll, v.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 59: Most of them feed upon [...] Hearbes, Weedes, and suche other baggage.
at baggage, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 58: The people there are marveilously given to daintie fare, gluttony, belly cheere [...] and gourmandice.
at belly chere (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 95: In this kinde of practise they continue [...] yea, half a yeer together, swilling and gulling, night and day, till they be drunke as Apes, and as blockish as beasts.
at blockish (adj.) under block, n.1
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 95: You will learn to play the Hippocrit, to cogge, lye, and falsifie.
at cog, v.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 25: The Gally-hosen are made very large and wide, reaching downe to their knees onely.
at galligaskins, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 57: I cannot see how this geare shold be holpen.
at gear, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 99: For what clipping, what culling, what kissing and bussing, what smouching and slabbering one of another, what filthie groping and vncleane handling is not practised.
at grope, v.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 92: The king anointed [...] a hundred lustie guttes.
at lusty-guts, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 56: He is but a beast that for such white lyvered punishment would abstayne from such gallant pastyme.
at white-livered, adj.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 91: A great sorte of idle lubbers.
at lubber, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 47: Then their bodies beeyng satisfied, and ther heades preely mizzeled with wine, thei walke abroade for a time.
at mizzled, adj.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 92: Their pretie Mopsies and loouyng Bessies.
at mopsy, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 95: When this Nippitatum, this huf cap (as they call it), and this nectar of lyfe, is set abroache, well is he that can get the soonest to it.
at nipitate, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses in Ebsworth Bagford Ballads (1878) I 516: A Pinnace may be riggde with silke, / And all may be but outward show.
at pinnace, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 41: Beware the Spanish pip.
at pip, n.1
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 62: Some [...] pyssing under the boorde as they sitte, which is most horrible.
at piss, v.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 55: He hath his pretie Pussie to huggle withall.
at pussy, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 69: All which are now in most places taken from them by these greedye Puttockes, to the great impouerishing and vtter beggering of whole towns and parishes.
at puttock, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 41: Yee shall not haue any gentlewoman almost, no nor yet any droye or pussle in the countrey, but they will carye in their hande nosegayes and posies.
at puzzle, n.1
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 99: For what clipping, what culling, what kissing and bussing, what smouching and slabbering one of another.
at slobber, v.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 41: Beware the Spanish pip.
at Spanish pip (n.) under Spanish, adj.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 55: They stand uppon their Pantoufles, and hoyse vp their sayles on highe.
at stand on one’s (own) pantofles (v.) under stand, v.2
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 48: In the Feeldes and Suburbes of the Cities, they haue Gardens [...] wherein they maie (and doubtlesse doe) many of them plaie the filthie persons.
at suburb, n.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 95: They continue [...] swilling and gulling, night and day, till they be as drunke as apes, and blockish as beasts.
at swill, v.
[UK] P. Stubbes Anatomie of Abuses 47: The Drunkards and swilbowles, vppon their ale benches, when their heads are intoxicat with new wine, wil not stick to belch foorth.
at swill-tub (n.) under swill, n.
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