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ballad in Love and Drollery (1969) 164: Let lobcock leave his wife at home / With lusty Jinkin, that clownish groom.at clownish (adj.) under clown, n.
ballad in Love and Drollery (1969) 164: Let lobcock leave his wife at home / With lusty Jinkin, that clownish groom. Variety in Wardroper (1969) 22: I do love thy black, black, black, / I do love thy black, black, black.at black, n.
St Patrick for Ireland in Wardroper (1969) 103: Then if you admire no female elf / The halter may go hang itself.at go hang...! (excl.) under hang, v.1
‘The First Beginning’ Sportive Wit
in (1969) 221: My sister went to market / To buy her a taffety hat. / Before she came there her arse lay bare. / Lay you your lips to that.at arse, n.
‘The Threading of the Needle’ Sportive Wit in (1979) 157: O, that I durst but play at in-and-in / [...] Or fast-or-loose, I care not whether much.at play fast and loose with a woman’s apron-strings (v.) under play (at)..., v.
‘The Threading of the Needle’ in Sportive Wit in (1979) 157: O that I durst but shoot a gulf I know, / Or in the Lower Countries my seed sow.at low countries, n.
Sportive Wit ‘O That I Durst’ in (1979) 157: O that I durst but thread your needle, lady / There would I work until I had made a baby.at thread the needle (v.) under needle, n.
‘The Threading of the Needle’ in Sportive Wit in (1979) 157: O that I durst but shoot a gulf I know, / Or in the Lower Countries my seed sow, / Or plough the bottom of that Netherland / Until my plough did fall, and I not stand.at Netherlands, n.
‘The Threading of the Needle’ Sportive Wit in (1979) 157: Yet I care not; for all that I will venture, / If you’ll give me leave, within your ring to enter.at ring, n.
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