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[UK] Dekker Match Me in London I i: A Shopkeeper, come hither a batfowling euery moone-shien night. [Ibid.] II i: If you walke soberly alone from shop to shop, your bat fowling would catch more wagtailes.
at bat-fowling, n.
[UK] Dekker Match Me in London I i : king: What’s her Husband? lad: A flatcap, pish.
at flat-cap, n.
[UK] Dekker Match me in London I i: So, ho, ho, ho, the Conyes vse to feed most i’th night Sir, yet I cannot see my young mistris in our Warren.
at cony, n.
[UK] Dekker Match me in London II i: ‘Is the imbrodered Muffe perfum’d for the Lady?’ ‘Yes forsooth, she neuer put her hand into a sweeter thing.’.
at muff, n.1
[UK] Dekker Match me in London I i: A Barber stood with her on Saturday night very late, when he had shau’d all his Customers, and as I thinke, came to trimme her.
at trim, v.
[UK] Dekker Match me in London V ii: ‘Whether is a womans life measured by the Ell or the Yard.’ ‘All women by the Yard sure, it’s no life else.’.
at yard, n.1
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