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Vinegar and Mustard, or, Worm-wood-Lectures for every Day in the Week choose

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[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: He was thrust up his Aul into her blind creek, (with a Pox to her) and when you was prickt, her [i.e. she] was give such a kick upward, that her was threw the fellow out of the saddle all along in the dirt.
at awl, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A2: When you rise out of bed, you turn your backside towards me, as though I should kiss that.
at backside, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: Do you remember how thou layst with a Fisher-man for a quardern of Mackarel, and when you came back agen how you paid the Water-man with a pox that carried you, thou bobtail’d Whore thou.
at bobtail, n.1
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: Thou lay in the Cage by Smithfield Pond with two bastards, thou cage-bird thou.
at cage, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: Thou lay in the Cage by Smithfield Pond with two bastards, thou cage-bird thou.
at cage-bird (n.) under cage, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A3r: And where you say that I a Foxing go, / I’d have you knowI use not to do so.
at fox, v.1
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: Thou shouldst well know, that I was never such a jade as to tire as thou didst, thou common Hackney thou? for when thou and a fellow was a doing I know what thou didst cry, Dig on, dig on, which is enough, enough in your pocky welch language [...] that was the trick of a jade to tire.
at hackney, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A6: You are at your Unsanctified Tipling Inns, your Ale-houses or your Taverns, and are drunken.
at tippling-house, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A2v: How you whispered with your Jacks and Pot-companions, and then you shook hands at parting.
at jack, n.1
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: Thou shouldst well know, that I was never such a jade as to tire as thou didst, thou common Hackney thou? for when thou and a fellow was a doing I know what thou didst cry, Dig on, dig on.
at you know what, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A2: Pray sir what day do you call this that your Roast-meat clothes must be put on? Is this not Munday.
at roast-meat clothes (n.) under roast meat, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A3v: Thou art such an innocent fool, that though thou seest thy guests pot-shaken, and have lost their memories, you forsooth must tell them their just reckoning.
at pot-shaken (adj.) under pot, n.1
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A2v: How you whispered with your Jacks and Pot-companions, and then you shook hands at parting.
at pot companion (n.) under pot, n.1
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: He was thrust up his Aul into her blind creek, (with a Pox to her) and when you was prickt, her [i.e. she] was give such a kick upward, that her was threw the fellow out of the saddle all along in the dirt.
at prick, v.1
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: When the fellows Breeches were down, and he got up thou was ask, whether he was ride a galops or a trots?
at ride, v.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A6: Away, away thou impudent Welch Runt, thou, thou comest from a Forraign Nation.
at runt, n.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A6: And now I say (yet speak under the Rose) Those snotty fellows, that pek[?] in the Nose, Like to the Papist sily women tice, For to undo their Husbands in a trice.
at snotty, adj.
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B2: You could not stay lest you should want water to grind with, but you did grind in your own water mill.
at watermill (n.) under water, n.1
[UK] J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A2: Get you gone, and come home as wise as you went (like a Woodcock I had like to say) hey ho.
at woodcock, n.
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