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Wil Bagnals Ghost choose

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[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 24: But then he had a way begun / To gropen / In the back side.
at backside, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 32: Hab, nab the fool did simply choose / Two such (as brought him to the nooze) [...] Had he but been my follower, / He’d slipt his neck out of the Collar.
at collar, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 16: The scolds as have at Hicks-Hall bin indicted: / Their Curtain-Lectures, and their Morning Peales, / Are all reveng’d.
at curtain lecture (n.) under curtain, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 5: And well disperst it ’mongst the crew; / For he did ding it, white and blew.
at ding, v.1
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 16: Others for canting, drabbing, and for guzzle.
at guzzle, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 9: The huffy puffy Stewards words, / Were to our Clerke like any swords.
at huffy, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 37: So here, [prison] beer and smoak are sung in to the pittifull receivers, who must drop a tear before they taste, either the silver of the eye, which procures forbearance, or else the very gold and blood of the heart, which is ready John.
at ready john (n.) under ready, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 4: (For up all heels full swift did fly) / Left all his squittered company, / Most stinking.
at squittered (adj.) under squitters, the, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 32: I knew ’twould never come to lesse / Then swinging for’t.
at swing, v.
[UK] E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 4: Brasier [...] in the stocks, / Repents with both leggs under locks, / But his foul’d friends with wipes and mockes / Do fit him.
at wipe, n.
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