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The Wonderfull Yeare choose

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[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 82: An Angell he wanted to be his guide, and vnder ten shillings (by his ten bones) he would not put his finger into the fire.
at ten bones, n.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 34: The worst players Boy stood vpon his good parts, swearing tragicall and busking oathes, that how vilainously soeuer he randed [...] he would in despite of his honest audience, be halfe a sharer (at least) at home, or else strowle (thats to say trauell) with some notorious wicked floundering company abroad.
at busk, v.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 45: Feare and Trembling (the two Catch-polles of Death) arrest euery one.
at catchpole, n.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 5: If Bad, who (but an Asse) would intreate (as Players do in a cogging Epilogue at the end of a filthie Comedy).
at cog, v.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 25: There the rich Cubs lurke, When in great houses ruffians are at worke.
at cub, n.1
[UK] Dekker Wonderful Yeare 23: Imagine now a mighty man of dust / Stands in a doubt what servant he may trust / With plate worth thousands, jewels worth far more.
at dust, n.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 5: Thile be found to be most pitifull pure fresh-water souldiers.
at freshwater soldier (n.) under Freshwater, adj.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 47: Mary no Diues was within to send him a crum, (for all your Gold-finches were fled to the woods).
at goldfinch (n.) under gold, adj.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 71: He shall liue to giue more Coblers heads the Bastinado.
at give someone’s head the bastinado (v.) under head, n.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 46: Leaue them in the vnmercifull hands of the Country-hard-hearted Hobbinolls.
at hobbinol, n.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 39: In euery house griefe striking vp [...] Some frantically running to knock vp Sextons, others fear-fully sweating with Coffins.
at knock up, v.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 49: Only Hearbe-wiues and Gardeners (that neuer prayed before, vnlesse it were for Raine or faire Weather,) were now day and night vppon their marybones.
at marrowbones, n.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 84: Euen the Westerne Pugs receiuing money there [in plague time], haue tyed it in a bag at the end of their barge, and trailed it through the Thames.
at pug, n.2
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 70: Thou shewst thy selfe to be a right cobler, and no sowter, that canst thus cleanly clowt vp the seam-rent sides of thy affection.
at right, adv.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 48: Iehochanan, Symeon, and Eleazar, neuer kept such a plaguy coyle in Iersualem among the hunger-starued Iewes, as these three Sharkers did in their Parishes.
at shark, n.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 35: Whilst Troy was swilling sack and sugar.
at swill, v.
[UK] Dekker Wonderfull Yeare 134: The unicorne cobler . . . being over head and eares in sleepe . . . softly out-steales sir Paris, and to Helenaes teeth [taste] prooved himselfe a true Trojan.
at unicorn, n.
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