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In Praise of the Red Herring choose

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[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 42: And what will not blinde Cupid doe in the night which is his blindmans holiday?
at play at bo-peep (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 8: They would no more [...] have their heads washt with his bubbly spume or Barbers balderdash.
at balderdash, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 44: The churlish frampold waues gaue him his belly full of fish-broath.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 70: A secret that all Tapsters will curse mee for blabbing.
at blab, v.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 42: And what will not blinde Cupid doe in the night which is his blindmans holiday?
at blind Cupid (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 42: And what will not blinde Cupid doe in the night which is his blindmans holiday?
at blind man’s holiday (n.) under blind, adj.1
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 32: The waies beyond sea were so bungd vp with your dayly oratours [...] that a snaile coulde not wriggle in her hornes betwixt them.
at bunged up, adj.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 35: Their clacke or gabbling to this purport.
at clack, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 14: They haue towres vpon them sixteene [...] which haue their thundring tooles to compell Deigo Spanyard to ducke.
at dago, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 55: It would not fadge, for then the market was raised to three C.
at fadge, v.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 44: The churlish frampold waues gaue him his belly full of fish-broath.
at fish broth (n.) under fish, n.1
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 10: Hearing of the gangs of good fellowes, that hustled and bustled thither.
at gang, n.1
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 41: He stept, and pluckt him from his state with a wennion [...] and thrust him downe his pudding house at a gobbe.
at gob, n.2
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 39: Those Turbanto grout-heads, that hang all men by the throates on Iron hookes.
at grouthead, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 5: They were not such Gargantuan boystrous gulliguts as they haue beene reckoned.
at gully-gut (n.) under gully, n.2
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 8: His yeomen bolde cast their heeles in their necke, and friske it after him, and thence spouteth that obscene appelation of Sarding sandses, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts.
at hob, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 74: The huffe-cappest drink in that house you shal be sure of alwayes.
at huffcap, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 21: Huftie-tuftie youthful ruffling comrades, wearing euery one three yeardes of feather in his cap for his mistris fauour.
at hufty-tufty, adj.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 24: The posterior Italian and Germane cornugraphers sticke not to applaude and cannonize vnnaturall sodomitrie.
at Italian, adj.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 70: It shall be but the weight of a strawe, or the weight of Iacke Straw more.
at jack straw (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 35: The Scotish Iockies or Redshanks (so surnamed of their immoderate raunching vp the red shanks or red herrings).
at Jock, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 53: He fell into the thieuish hands of malcontents and launceknights.
at lance-knight, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 70: Let the cunningest lickespiggot swelt his heart out, the beere shal neuer foame or froath in the cupp.
at lick-spigot (n.) under lick, v.2
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 56: It being a sweaty loggerhead greasie sowter.
at logger-headed (adj.) under loggerhead, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring Epist. Ded.: Present mee with the best mornings draught of merry-go-downe in your quarters.
at merry-go-down (n.) under merry, adj.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 28: The captious mystery of Monsieur herring low vessels [which] will not giue their heads for the washing, holding their owne pell-mell in all weathers.
at mounseer, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 55: Peters successour was so in his mulliegrums that he had thought to haue buffeted him, and cursed him with bell book & candle.
at mulligrubs, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 47: Down she sunk to the earth, as dead as a doore naile, and neuer mumpt crust after.
at mump, v.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 45: The sunne was so in his mumps vppon it.
at mumps, n.
[UK] Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 6: Hollanders, Zealanders, Scots, French [...] fetch the best of their viands and mangery from her market.
at mungaree, n.
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