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The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl choose

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[UK] R. Taylor Hog Hath Lost His Pearl I i: Yes there’s the fagg end of a leg of mutton.
at fag end, n.
[UK] R. Taylor Hog Hath Lost His Pearl in Dodsley XI (1875) 448: It angers me to the guts, that nobody hath been about her.
at gut, n.
[UK] R. Taylor Hog Hath Lost His Pearl III ii: wel.: Is thy liuing-giuer within sir? ser.: You meane my Master sir? wel.: You haue hit it sir, prays’d be your vnderstanding.
at hit it, v.
[UK] R. Taylor Hog Hath Lost His Pearl II i: I can tell you newes, your fellow virgin-hole player, my sister, is stolne away to night.
at hole, n.1
[UK] R. Taylor Hog Hath Lost His Pearl II iii: Some are proud of their humor, although in that humor, they be often knockt for being so.
at knock, v.
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