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Ralph Roister Doister choose

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[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister in Dodsley III (1874) I ii: I will tarry here this month, but some of the house / Shall take it of me, and then I care not a louse.
at not care a louse, v.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister V iii: roister: If it were another than but thou, it were a knave. m. merry: Ye are another your self, sir, the Lord us both save.
at you’re another!, excl.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister III iii: Ye are such a calf, such an ass, such a block.
at ass, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister II i: Ah sir, Backare quod Mortimer to his sowe.
at baccare!, excl.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister III iii: Ye are such a calf, such an ass, such a block.
at block, n.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister III iii: Ye are such a calf, such an ass, such a block.
at calf, n.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I v: I bring her a ring with a token in a clout.
at clout, n.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: By Cock, and well sewed, my good Tibet Talkapace. [Ibid.] III iv: By Cock’s precious potstick!
at cock, n.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister III v: I knock your costard, if ye offer to strike me.
at costard, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: roister: I use to kiss all them that I love, to God I vow. tib. talk: Yea, sir? I pray you, when did ye last kiss your cow?
at cow, n.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I i: All the day long he is facing and craking / Of his great acts in fighting and fray-making.
at crack, v.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I i: Sometimes I hang on Hankyn Hoddydoddy’s sleeve.
at hoddy-doddy, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister II iii: tib. talk.: Well, Truepenny, never flinging? an. alyface.: And frisking?
at frisk, v.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister IV vii: If I were as ye be, by Gog’s dear mother!
at gog, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I i: And in all the hot haste must she be his wife.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister III iv: I would have you myself, and a straw for yond Gill!
at jill, n.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister V iv: Roister Doister, that doughty kite.
at kite, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: m. mumbl: Sweet malt maketh jolly good ale for the nonce. tib. talk: Which will slide down the lane without any bones.
at lane, n.1
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister III iii: Ye are [...] Such a Lilburn, such a hobil, such a lobcock.
at lobcock, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister III iii: For the veriest dolt that ever was born: / And veriest lubber, sloven and beast.
at lubber, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: Couch on your marybones, whoresons, down to the ground!
at marrowbones, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister V ii: It was none but Roister Doister, that foolish mome.
at mome, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: And how doth our old beldame here, Madge Mumblecrust?
at mumble-crust (n.) under mumble, v.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iv: Kock’s nownes, what meanest thou man? tut, a whistle.
at nouns!, excl.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: But the devil cannot make old trot hold her tongue.
at old trot (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: Well, mock much of her, and keep her well, I ’vise ye. / I will take no charge of such a fair piece keeping.
at piece, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: Then is’t mine own pigsny, and blessing on my heart!
at pigsnyes, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister IV viii: Truce, hold your hands! truce, for a pissing while or twain.
at pissing, adj.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister in Dodsley III (1874) IV viii: Down with this little quean, that hath at me such spite!
at quean, n.
[UK] Udall Ralph Roister Doister II iv: Is all your delight and joy / In whisking and ramping abroad, like a Tom-boy?
at ramp, v.1
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