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Wits Interpreter: the English Parnassus choose

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[UK] J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter 77: It is the sober black I love; / I lov’t so well that I profest, / I love the blackest parts the best.
at black, n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter 269: Here six foot deep in his fast sleep / The Lord of Lampasse lyes, / Who his end made with his own blade, / Betwixt his Mistris thighs; / If through that hole to heaven he stole.
at blade, n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘A Rapture’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 231: Then if the Catch-pole chance to hale, And drag me to the loathsome Gaole; There may your servant die and rot.
at catchpole, n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘From a Gentleman to his Mistress’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 174: Of polisht Ivory is thy Globe-like belly, [...] And under that same snowy swelling mountain, Coverd with moss, doth stand a milky Fountain.
at fountain (of love), n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘A Rapture’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 230: No, hang a Mistress, I’le have none, No such toy to dote upon.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter 269: Here six foot deep in his fast sleep / The Lord of Lampasse lyas, / Who his end made with his own blade, / Betwixt his Mistris thighs; / If through that hole to heaven he stole.
at hole, n.1
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘From a Gentleman to his Mistress’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 174: Of polisht Ivory is thy Globe-like belly, [...] And under that same snowy swelling mountain, Coverd with moss, doth stand a milky Fountain.
at moss, n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘A Rapture’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 230: The Phoenix too must build his nest.
at phoenix nest, n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘To His Mistress Desirous to Go to Bed’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 259: Make me thy maiden chamber-man, Or let me be thy warming-pan.
at warming pan, n.1
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘A Rapture’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 230: The Phoenix too must build his nest.
at phoenix, n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘Tobacco’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 228: She will be ready at your call, And take Tobacco, Pipe, and all [...] Your stopper must be stiff and strong, It must be large and long, Or else she swears you do her wrong, She scorns your weak Tobacco.
at pipe, n.1
[UK] J. Cotgrave ‘To His Mistress Desirous to Go to Bed’ Wits Interpreter (1671) 259: The socket, plays at out and in.
at socket, n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter 329: [A] Vice-Admiral [...] pisseth under the table to offend their shoes or stockings.
at vice-admiral (of the narrow seas), n.
[UK] J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter 328: Trumpeter [...] He that belcheth either backward or forward.
at trumpeter, n.
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