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The Shoemakers’ Holiday choose

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[UK] Dekker Shoemaker’s Holiday VI i: My master will be as proud as a dog in a doublet, all in beaten damask and velvet.
at dog in a doublet (n.) under dog, n.2
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV i: How merry? why our buttockes went iggy ioggy like a quagmyre.
at jig-a-jig, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday V v: Away you Islington white pot, hence you happerarse, you barly pudding ful of magots.
at hopper arse, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday III:iv: Away she flung, never returned, nor said bih nor bah.
at bah!, excl.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday II ii: O master, ist you that speake bandog and bedlam this morning.
at speak bandog and bedlam (v.) under bandog, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday I iv: Maister, for my life yonders a brother of the Gentle Craft, if he beare not saint Hughes bones, I’ll forfeit my bones.
at St Hugh’s bones, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV ii: hodge: Why then Sibil, take heede of pricking. sibil: For that let me alone, I haue a tricke in my budget.
at budget, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday II iii: They may well be called butter-boxes, when they drink fat veale, and thicke beare too.
at butterbox (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV iv: They in the meane time shall chop vp the matter at the Sauoy.
at chop, v.1
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday I iv: wife: Simon it is almost seven. eyre: Is’t so dame clapper dudgeon, is’t seven a clocke, and my mens breakefast not readie? trip and goe you sowst cunger, away.
at clapperdudgeon, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday V ii: O heart, my codpiece point is readie to flie in peeces eury time I think vpon mistris Rose.
at cod-piece (n.) under cod, n.3
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV iv: I came hither of purpose with shooes to sir Rogers worship, whilst Rose his daughter be coniecatcht by Hauns.
at conycatch, v.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday V v: I danc’d the shaking of the sheetes with her six and thirtie yeares ago.
at dance the shaking of the sheets (without music) (v.) under dance, v.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday III i: Maister, I hope yowle not suffer my dame to take downe your iourneymen.
at take down, v.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV i: In faith I would haue yearkt and firkt your Priscilla.
at firk, v.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV iv: I have no maw to this geere, no stomache as yet to a red petticoat.
at gear, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV iv: These two gulles will [...] take master Bridegroome, and mistris Bride napping.
at gull, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV i: In faith I would haue yearkt and firkt your Priscilla.
at jerk, v.2
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV iv: Girles, holde out tacke, For now smockes for this iumbling Shall goe to wracke.
at jumble, v.
[UK] Dekker Shoemaker’s Holiday V ii: Oh if they had stay’d, I would have so lamb’d them with flouts!
at lam, v.1
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV i: My organe pipe squeaks this morning for want of licoring.
at liquor (up), v.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV iv: A foul drunken lubber.
at lubber, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday II iii: There be more maides then mawkin, more men then Hodge, and more fooles then Firke.
at mawkin, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV v: I know now a messe of shoemakers meate at the woolsack in Ivie lane, to cozen my gentleman of lame Rafes wife.
at mess, n.1
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV iv: Am I sure that Paules steeple is a handful higher than London Stone? or that the pissing conduit leakes nothing but pure mother Bunch?
at Mother Bunch (n.) under mother, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV i: I lacke my breakfast, tis munching time.
at munch, v.1
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday III i: Fooles? nailes! if I tarry nowe, I would my guts might be turnd to shoe-thread.
at nails!, excl.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV ii: My organe pipe squeaks this morning for want of boozing.
at organ-pipe, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday I i: Peace my fine Firke, stand by with your pishery pasherie, away, I am a man of the best presence, Ile speake to them.
at pishery-pashery, n.
[UK] Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday I i: He sets more discord in a noble house, By one daies broching of his pickethanke tales.
at pickthank, n.
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