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The Gul’s Horne-Booke choose

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[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 26: In an Ordinary you shall find the variety of a whole kingdome in a few Apes of the kingdome.
at ape, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 37: It skils not, though there be none dubd in your Bunch.
at bunch, n.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 15: Thou maiest safely and wisely brag tis thine owne Bush-Naturall.
at bush, n.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 17: Euery head, when it stood bare or uncouered, lookt like a butter-boxes nowle, having his thrumbd cap on.
at thrum-cap, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 58: And to let that clapper, your tongue, be tossed so high, that all the house may ring of it .
at clapper, n.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke C1: Care not for those coorse painted cloath rimes, made by ye University of Salerne, that come over you, with... sweete candied councell.
at come over, v.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 15: The spending Englishman, who to maintaine a paltry warren of unprofitable Conies, disimparkes the stately swift-footed wild Deere.
at deer, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 8: He shall strait waies be [...] tane in his own purse-nets by fencers and cony-catchers.
at fencer, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 6: There was then neither the Spanish slop, nor the Skipper’s galligaskin.
at galligaskins, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-booke Proem. 8: The Englishmans healthes, his hoopes, cans, half-cans, Gloues, Frolicks, and flap-dragons.
at glove, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 5: Growtnowles and Moames will in swarmes fly buzzing about thee.
at groutnoll, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 17: Keep thou that quilted head-peece on continually. Long haire will make thee looke dreadfully to thine enemies.
at head-piece, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 12: Jack-an-apes (being the scum and rascality of all the hedge-creepers) they go in jerkins and mandilions.
at hedge-creeper (n.) under hedge, adj.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 36: As you approach neere any night-walker that is up as late as yourselfe, curse and sweare (like one that speaks hie dutch) in a lofty voice.
at high Dutch (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 36: Let any hooke draw you either to a Fencers supper, or to a Players that acts such a part for a wager.
at hook, n.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 19: The Duke’s Tomb is a Sanctuary, and will keepe you aliue from wormes and land-rattess, that long to be feeding on your carkas.
at land-rat (n.) under land, n.3
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 2: In defiance of those terrible blockhouses, their loggerheads, make a true discovery of their wild (yet habitable) Country.
at loggerhead, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 5: Growtnowles and Moames will in swarmes fly buzzing about thee.
at mome, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-booke 10: For they which want sleepe (which is mans naturall rest) become either mere Naturals, or else fall into the Doctor’s hands.
at natural, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 8: He shall strait waies be [...] set upon (as it were, by free-booters) and tane in his own purse-nets by fencers and cony-catchers.
at purse-net, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 10: Ten Tyburnes cannot turne men ouer ye pearch so fast.
at drop off the perch (v.) under perch, n.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 35: If you fall to dice after Supper [...] you are to cherish the unthriftinesse of such yong tame pigions, if you be a right gentleman.
at pigeon, n.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 30: Their Poet cries perhaps a pox go with you.
at pox!, excl.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 30: Whethyer he be a young Quat of the first yeeres reuennuw, or some austere and sullen-facd steward.
at quat, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 14: To maintaine therefore, that sconce of thyne, strongly guarded [...] neuer suffer combe to fasten his teeth there.
at sconce, n.1
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 36: By this meanes you shall get experience by beeing guilty to their abominable shauing.
at shaving, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 27: He shall now and then light upon some Gull or other whom, he may skelder (after the gentle fashion) of money.
at skelder, v.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 15: Play neither the scurvy part of the Frenchman, that pluckes up all by ye rootes, nor that of the spending Englishman.
at spend, v.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-booke in Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 48: You shall [...] do them great pleasure to ask what pamphlets and poems a man might think fittest to wipe his tail with.
at tail, n.
[UK] Dekker Gul’s Horne-Booke 26: After dinner, euery man as his busines leades him [...] some to lende testers in Powles.
at tester, n.1
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