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[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 124: Your heroick Lines had rendred [sic] your Ape-ship more rediculous then an Ass.
at ape, n.
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 127: All the Tripe-women, Kitchin-stuff-wenches, Hogs-feet, Butter-Whores and Scullions.
at butter-whore (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 57: The Ancients or Historians Lies have told, / Pure Carrots call’d pure Threds of beaten Gold .
at carrots, n.
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 155: There hangs a Clapper-alias-Tongue.
at clapper, n.1
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 155: There’s Doll: who knows what mischief follows?
at doll, n.1
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 154: Who Mounts the Bridal Bed is madder / By far, than him that Mounts the Ladder. / What Man in’s Wits wo’n’t rather chuse / The Hempen, than the Marriage Noose?
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 127: All the Tripe-women, Kitchin-stuff-wenches, Hogs-feet, Butter-Whores and Scullions.
at kitchen stuff (n.) under kitchen, n.1
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 154: Who Mounts the Bridal Bed is madder / By far, than him that Mounts the Ladder. / What Man in’s Wits wo’n’t rather chuse / The Hempen, than the Marriage Noose?
at mount the ladder (v.) under mount, v.1
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 98: What Skip-kennel without his eyes offence, / Taught thee all this Dog-and-bitch Eloquence?
at skip-kennel (n.) under skip, v.
[UK] S. Wesley Maggots 125: He is a Fool that thinks it good / To laugh at all that’s made of Wood / And eke in time may lifted be / Unto the fatal wooden Tree.
at triple tree, n.
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