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Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot choose

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[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes II 46: Abigail discovers whom her Mistresse dreames of. [Ibid.] 50: Mrs Abigail, I pray how is it, that you are so forward.
at abigail, n.1
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes I viii 61: No doubt the baggages in the coach were his sisters.
at baggage, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III iv 134: The Bretheren of the Spicket, state the question in the Negative [...] that there is no living without Liquids.
at brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes IV xx 268: Gillians a burnt taile, or Will with the wispe.
at burned, adj.1
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes I i 8: This was a terrible stroke, and enough to have crushed our cock of the game in the egg.
at cock of the game (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III xi 145: Amadis had a powting slut, a sullen huzzy, he should have curried her Coat.
at curry someone’s hide, v.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III vii 25: He knew not what a dance the Don would lead him, before he return’d to the shaking of the sheets, with his Joan Gutierez.
at dance the shaking of the sheets (without music) (v.) under dance, v.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes I vii 51: It would have been queen of sluts then, for according to the author’s account, she was a draggle-tailed lady.
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III v 96: He was not able to stirre his jawes, nor could be partaker of any of the good cheer, except it were the liquid part of it, which they call Dutch gleek.
at Dutch gleek (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III xi 145: When shee was in the Mubblefubbles, doe you thinke I was mad for it? no, no; I took my Asse [...] and went to the next good Town, and let it Jubble out as it Mubbled in.
at mad for it, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III v 96: He was not able to stirre his jawes, nor could be partaker of any of the good cheer, except it were the liquid part of it, which they call Dutch gleek, where he plaied his cards so well, and vied and revied so often that he had scarce an eye to see withall, his guzzle recompencing abundantly the want of his Teeth.
at guzzle, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes IV xxiv 281: For to a Cave he brought the damzell, / Pretending there to rest her hams well.
at ham, n.1
[UK] E. Gayton Pleas. Notes II 36: The Ladies in the Hell Carts screem’d out for their Hector.
at hell-cart (n.) under hell, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III xi 145: Angelica made him horne mad.
at horn-mad, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes II i 36: The Gyants and the Gods for the time, were not so hot at it as the Don and the Biscayan.
at not so hot under hot, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes IV iii 183: The want of which, caught in a humming lie, / The Knight that fought by th’ clock at Shrewsberry.
at humming, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III xxiv 279: She was plumpe as any Plover [...] she was comely. / And which gave the whole Town the Itch, / (Of love I mean) both faire and rich.
at itch, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes I vi 36: The library ladder was mounted, like the execution stairs; and the barber, like Jack Ketch, fell to work.
at Jack Ketch, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes IV xx 268: Gillians a burnt taile, or Will with the wispe.
at jill, n.1
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes I 6: What would the Don have said, had he known some of our British adventurers? the Knight of the spouting-pestle; or the Knight of the burning-pestle, who carried all the ladies before him.
at ...the pestle under knight of the..., n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III xxi 270: But as slie Sancho politiquely found / His master to be loose i’th’ hilts, (though bound).
at loose in the hilt(s) (adj.) under loose, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes I iv 14: Blest be Dulcinea, whose Favour I beseeching, / Rescu’d poore Andrew, and his Nock-Andro from breeching.
at nockandro, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III ii 76: Those Countries were better furnished with She-Nurseries and Seminaries of no Religion.
at nursery, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III v 93: What ever thou and the foule pusse did doe (sub Rosa as they say) while you were plucking of her Rose.
at pluck a rose (v.) under pluck, v.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III v 93: What ever thou and the foule pusse did doe (sub Rosa as they say) while you were plucking of her Rose.
at puss, n.1
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III ii 76: Those Countries were better furnished with She-Nurseries and Seminaries of no Religion.
at seminary, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes I v 17: The Lackey had laid upon his back so, that he was spoyled for a star-gazer.
at star-gazer (n.) under star, n.1
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III vi 102: The standard for morning and evening draughts [...] is called in the most authentick and emphaticall word they have, super naculum.
at supernaculum, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III i 34: So you have him uncorrupt, and by the help of Rablais sweet as a nut.
at sweet as (a) nut (adj.) under sweet, adj.1
[UK] E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III ii 76: Stirr’d up by the Marshall sounds and loud claps of her taile, passive and active.
at tail, n.
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