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Lanthorne and Candle-Light choose

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[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 11: This Iacke in a Boxe, or this Diuell in Mans shape, wearing (like a Player on a Stage) good cloathes on his backe, comes to a Goldsmithes stall, to a Drapers, a Haberdashers [...] And ther drawing forth a fayre new Boxe, hammered all out of Silver Plate, hee opens it, and powres foorth twentie or forty Twentie-shilling-peeces in New-golde. To which heape of Worldly-temptation, thus much hee addes in words, that either he himselfe, or such a Gentleman (to whom he belongs) hath an occasion for foure or five daies to use fortie pound. [...] But whilst this musick is sounding, Iacke in a Boxe Acts his part in a dum shew, Thus: he shifts out of his fingers another boxe, of the same mettall and making that the former beares, which second boxe is filled onely with shillings.
at jack in a box, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionary: Bing a wast, get you hence.
at bing a waste, v.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Mine host being a credulous Asse, suffers them all to get uppe upon him.
at ass, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: A Muffling chete, signifies a Napkin. A Belly Chete, an Apron.
at belly cheat (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: A Gentleman is called a Gentry Coue, or Cofe: A good fellow, is a Bene Cofe.
at bene cove (n.) under bene, adj.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Stowe you beene cofe: hold your peace good fellow. And cut benar whiddes: and speake better words.
at bene, adj.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: He cuts, bing to the Ruffmans.
at bing, v.1
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 5: The Bird that is preyed upon, is Money. [...] Of Hawking How to catch Birds by the Book. Which is done with five Nets, viz. A Faulconer. A Lure. A Tercel Gentle. A Byrd. A Mongrel.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 5: They [...] hauing excellent skill in the Black-art, thats to say in picking of locks, makes the dore suddenly fly open.
at black art (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Which word Cheate, beeing coupled to other wordes, stands in very good stead, and does excellent service: [...] A Bleating chete, a Calfe, or a Sheepe: and so may that word be marryed to many others besides.
at bleating cheat (n.) under bleat, v.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 11: They that are Cheated by Jack in a Boxe, are called Bleaters.
at bleater, n.1
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 3: They shuffle and cut on one side: the bones rattle on the other.
at bones, n.1
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionarie: Half a Borde, six pence.
at half-(a-)bord(e) (n.) under bord, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Enough – with bowsy Coue maund Nace, / Tour the Patring Coue in the Darkeman Case.
at bousy, adj.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: If we Niggle, or mill a bowsing Ken.
at bowsing-ken, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Bube and Ruffian cly the Harman beck and Harmans.
at bube, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionary Bufe, a Dogge.
at bufe, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light [as cit. c.1566].
at tib (of the buttery), n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 5: But he fearing they would make a Hawke or a Buzzard of him too, and report they had ridden him like an Asse, as they had done others, out of dores he flung with a vengeance.
at buzzard, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light [as cit. c.1566].
at cackling-cheat, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: As these people are strange both in names and in their condition, so doe they speake a Language (proper only to themselues) called Canting.
at canting, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Enough – with bowsy Coue maund Nace, / Tour the Patring Cove in the Darkeman Case.
at case, n.3
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Cassan is Cheese, and is a word barbarously coynde out of the substantive Caseus which also signifies Cheese.
at cassan, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: A Muffling chete, signifies a Napkin. A Belly Chete, an Apron.
at muffling-cheat, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: A Grunting chete, a Pig.
at grunting-cheat, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Fambles are Hands and thereupon a Ring is called a Fambling chete.
at fambling-cheat, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: A Smelling chete, signifies a Nose.
at smelling-cheat, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionary Smelling chete, an Orchard or Garden.
at smelling-cheat, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Which word Cheate beeing coupled to other wordes, stands in very good stead, and does excellent seruice: [...] A Lowhing chete, a Cow: A Bleating chete, a Calfe, or a Sheepe: and so may that word be marryed to many others besides.
at lowing cheat, n.
[UK] Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Which word Cheate, beeing coupled to other wordes, stands in very good stead, and does excellent service: [...] A Quacking chete, a duck : A Lowghing chete, a Cow: A Bleating chete, a Calfe, or a Sheepe.
at quacking cheat, n.
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