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Laugh and Be Fat choose

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[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 32: Ram-headed Bel-weathers shall ring thy fame.
at bell-wether, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 13: Let not his thundering big-mouth’d words apall thee.
at big-mouthed, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 24: Thou art no creame-pan neither, worthy man, / Although thy wits lie in thy heads braine pan.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 42: He is not taking my Lords coyne for current.
at coin, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 43: And such are you you damn’d Tartarian whelps.
at damned, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 42: Not like the entertainment of Iack Drum, / Who was best welcome when he went his way.
at Jack Drum’s entertainment, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 10: For ’tis concluded mongst the wizards all, / To make thee Master of Gul-finches hall.
at gull-finch, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 31: This gentleman thy praise doth briefly note, / Compares thy wit and senses to a Goate.
at goat, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 3: I could make neerer proofes, / And not (like you) so farre to gall my hoofes.
at hoof, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 5: I thinke it more than foolish pittie, / So great a iemme as you should grace the citie.
at jemmy, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 43: When base mechanicke, muddy minded slaues, / Whose choicest food is garlicke & greene cheese.
at mechanic, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 15: That man may well be call’d an idle mome.
at mome, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 39: Thus Mounsieur Coriat at your kind request, / My recantation here I haue exprest.
at mounseer, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 30: Most men say thou pissest inke; / If it be true, I’de giue my guilded raper, / That to thy inke thou couldst sir-reuerance paper.
at sir-reverence, v.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 23: If French, or Venice Puncks had fir’d or scald thee, This man had neuer raw-bon’d Coriat cald thee.
at scald, v.1
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 44: Contaminous, pestiferous, preposterous, stygmaticall, slauonian, slubberdegullions.
at slabberdegullion, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 7: Thy auncient Ierkin, and thy aged sloppes, / From whose warme confines thy retainers drops.
at slops, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 69: No man’s lines but mine you take in snuff.
at take snuff (v.) under snuff, n.2
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 43: And such are you you damn’d Tartarian whelps.
at tartarian, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 13: Let not his thundering big-mouth’d words apall thee.
at thundering, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 38: To grace thy trauels with a world of Toms: / Tom thumbe, Tom foole, Tom piper, & Tom-asse, / Thou Tom of Toms, do’st all these Toms surpasse.
at tom, n.1
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