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[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 113: To praise the Turnspit Iacke my Muse is mum, / Nor the entertainment of Iacke Drum / [...] / Nor of Jack Dog, Jack Dale / Jack Fool or Jack-a-Dandy I relate.
at jack-a-dandy, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 117: One that dares take Davy Ap Diggon or Shon Ap Morgan, by the nose.
at Shinkin-ap-Morgan, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 113: To praise the Turnspit Iacke my Muse is mum, / Nor the enterainment of Iacke Drum / [...] / Nor of black Jacks at gentle buttery bars.
at black jack, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 116: It is Lents intent, that the innocent Lambe and the Essex calfe, should suruiue to weare the crest of their Ancestors: that the Goose, the Buzzard, the Widgeon, and the Woodcocke, may walke fearlesse in any market Towne.
at buzzard, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 116: It is Lents intent, that the innocent Lambe and the Essex calfe, should suruiue to weare the crest of their Ancestors: that the Goose, the Buzzard, the Widgeon, and the Woodcocke, may walke fearlesse in any market Towne.
at Essex calf (n.) under Essex, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 119: Twenty citizens [...] shall take vp their lodgings in Luds vnlucky gate.
at Lud’s unlucky gate, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 113: Of Jack-an-Apes I list not to endite, / Nor of jack Daw my gooses quill shall write; / Of Jack of Newbery I will not repeate, / Nor Jacke of both sides, nor of Skip-Jacke neate.
at skip-jack, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 120: If any poore Iacke-a-Lent doe happen into the hands of a foole, tis but a Foole and a Iacke, or two fooles well met.
at jack, n.2
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 113: To praise the Turnspit Iacke my Muse is mum, / Nor the entertainment of Iacke Drum [...] Nor of Jack Dog, Jack Dale / Jack Fool or Jack-a-Dandy I relate.
at jack fool (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 116: It is Lents intent, that the innocent Lambe and the Essex calfe, should suruiue to weare the crest of their Ancestors: that the Goose, the Buzzard, the Widgeon, and the Woodcocke, may walke fearlesse in any market Towne.
at lamb, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 117: Bawling queans that use to sell and buy.
at quean, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 115: Vntill at last comes marching vp nother troope of Tatterdemallions.
at tatterdemallion, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Iacke a Lent’ in Works (1869) I 116: It is Lents intent, that the innocent Lambe and the Essex calfe, should suruiue to weare the crest of their Ancestors: that the Goose, the Buzzard, the Widgeon, and the Woodcocke, may walke fearlesse in any market Towne.
at widgeon, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Taylors Penniless Pilgrimage’ in Works (1869) I 129: My apparel to lie in durance, or Lavender [...] till such time as I could meet with some valiant friend that would desperately disburse.
at in lavender under lay (up) in lavender, v.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Taylors Penniless Pilgrimage’ in Works (1869) I 135: The Highland men, who for the most part speak nothing but Irish [i.e. Gaelic] and in former time were those people which were called the Red-shankes.
at redshank, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Taylors Penniless Pilgrimage’ in Works (1869) I 138: Two or three good rouses of sherry.
at rouse, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Taylors Penniless Pilgrimage’ in Works (1869) I 129: The Gentleman [...] caused my horse to bee put into his own stable, whilst we discoursing ouer a pinte of Spanish.
at Spanish, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Taylors Penniless Pilgrimage’ in Works (1869) I 123: In Barbican, / There’s as good Beer and Ale as euer twang’d.
at as good as ever twanged under twang, v.1
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Taylors Penniless Pilgrimage’ in Works (1869) I 130: Two bullets of gold, each being in value worth eleven shillings white money.
at white money (n.) under white, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ in Works (1869) II 37: These men can kisse their clawes, with Iack, how is’t? / And take and shake me kindely by the fist, / And put me off with dilatory cogges.
at cog, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ in Works (1869) II 39: They with a courtly tricke, or a flim-flam, do nod at me, whilst I the noddy am.
at flim-flam, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ in Works (1869) II 39: No wiser than flat fooles they be.
at flat, adj.1
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ in Works (1869) II 38: ’Twas their unhappy fate / The Counters, or King Lud’s unlucky gate.
at Lud’s unlucky gate, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ in Works (1869) II 36: A Kicksey Winsey: or A Lerry Come-Twang.
at lerrycometwang, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ in Works (1869) II 39: They with a courtly tricke, or a flim-flam, do nod at me, whilst I the noddy am.
at noddy, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ in Works (1869) II 37: A pox upon him.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ in Works (1869) II 38: These puckfoyst cockbrained coxcombs, shallow-pated.
at puckfist, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘A Kicksey Winsey’ Works (1869) II 39: And which of them sayes that I raue or raile, / Let him but pay, and bid me kisse his T.
at tail, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Praise of Hemp-Seed’ in Works (1869) III 70: And good Aminadab, I pray attend.
at Aminadab, n.
[UK] J. Taylor ‘Praise of Hemp-Seed’ in Works (1869) III 64: Philip and Cheiny never would appeare / Within our bounds.
at philip and cheyney, n.
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