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[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie IV ii: If hee had arested a mare instead of an horse, it had bin a slight ouersight, but to arest a man, that hath no lykenesse of a horse, is flatte lunasie, or alecie.
at alecie, n.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie II i: Weele bite thee for an ape if thou bob vs lyke asses.
at ape, n.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie V iii: The baggage begins to blush.
at baggage, n.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie II iv: I blabd nothing of the marriage.
at blab, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie II iii: Sweet wench thy face is louely, thy bodie comely [...] I am bold to boord you.
at board, v.1
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie III iii: Good silly Stellio, we must buckle shortly.
at buckle, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I iii: Ile no more dandle my daughter, shee shall prick on a clout till her fingers ake.
at clout, n.1
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie III iv: lu.: I loue a nut brown lasse, tis good to recreate. half.: Thou meanest, a browne nut is good to crack. lu.: Why wold it not do thee good to crack such a nut? half.: I feare she is worm-eaten within.
at crack, v.2
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie IV i: Well sayd, I perceiue turtles flie in couples.
at turtle (dove), n.1
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I i: Ile haue thy aduice, and if it fadge, thou shalt eate.
at fadge, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie V iii: vic.: Yet being brother and sister, there was a match in hammering betwixt them. mem.: What monstrous tale is this? [...] vic.: My verie bowels earned within me, that I shuld be author of such vilde incest.
at hammer, v.1
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I i: I marie, now you tickle me.
at I, prep.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie III ii: Come let vs be jogging.
at jog, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie II i: My head is full of hammers, & they haue so maletted my wit, that I am almost a malcontent.
at mallet, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I i: I marie, now you tickle me.
at marry!, excl.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie IV ii: God saue you pretty mouse.
at mouse, n.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I i: I shall goe for siluer though, when you shall be nailed vp for slips.
at nail, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I i: This noddle shall coin such new deuice.
at noddle, n.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I iii: They give us pap with a spoone before we can speake, and when we speake for that wee love, pap with a hatchet.
at pap with a hatchet (n.) under pap, n.3
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie II i: It is good to plea among pots.
at pot, n.1
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie II i: I shall goe for siluer though, when you shall bee nailed vp for slips.
at nail up for a slip (v.) under slip, n.1
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I i: Nowe for my wife, I would haue this kept from her, else shal I not be able to keepe my house from smoake, for let it come to one of her ears, & then wo to both mine.
at smoke, n.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie III ii: That makes them spit white broath, as they doo.
at spit sixpences (v.) under spit, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie III iv: Ther came an angrie cooke, and gelded the Iewry of theyre stones.
at stone, n.1
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie V iii: Ile not swap my father for all this.
at swap, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie V iii: At laugh and lie down, if they play, What Asse against the sport can bray? Such Tick-tacke has held many a day.
at tick-tack, n.1
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie V iii: What they doe This Night, In delight, Does thump away sorrow.
at thump, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I iii: [She] will fall too where she likes best, and thus the chicke scarce out of the shell cackles as though she had bene troden with an hundreth cockes.
at tread, v.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie V iii: What a mischief make the twanglers here.
at twanger, n.
[UK] Lyly Mother Bombie I iii: Twit not me with my ancestors.
at twit, v.
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