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The Counter Rat choose

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[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat F: [A Black Rat] None durst come neere / Like Tom of Bedlam did they fear him.
at Tom of Bedlam, n.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E4: Fill with the cheere / Your belly.
at belly chere (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E4: Vp comes the Bredah-Bouncer [...] Of Turnebull-Punks a staring Trouncer.
at bouncer, n.1
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat F4: [of a rat] It was a petty-fogging Varlet, / Whose back wore freeze, but bum no scarlet, And was tane napping with his Harlot, At Noddy.
at bum, n.1
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E2: Let Hogsdon-Scrapers on their Base / Sound Fum-fum-fum, from tottred case.
at catgut-scraper (n.) under catgut, n.1
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat G2: The Rozzen rubd off, and Cats guts wearie, We ask’d, How they who made men merrie Grew sad themselues.
at catgut, n.1
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E1: No, these are no Rats with foure legs, but only two; [...] they run but into two Rat-traps, that’s to say, The Compters of Wood-street and the Poultry, and for that cause are called Compter-Rats.
at counter-rat, n.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat G2: Strong were our Coxcombs, our legs weake.
at coxcomb, n.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat F4: [A long-tail’d Rat] He was no Hog-grubber.
at hog-grubber (n.) under hog, n.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E3: Aske any how such newes I tell, Of Wood-streets Hole, or Poultries Hell?
at hole, n.1
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat G2: The Blew Bore, Kept by Mad Ralph at Islington, Whose Hum and Mum, being powr’d vpon Our guts, – so burnt ’em.
at hum, n.1
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat F4: Then me they struck / Ath’ mazzard, An action of strong Battry! Good! They made my nose then gush out bloud.
at mazard, n.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat F: Mum then, — I’ll take a nap o’th’ boords Sir.
at mum!, excl.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat F4: [A long-tail’d Rat] It was a petty-fogging Varlet, Whose back wore freeze, but bum no scarlet, And was tane napping with his Harlot, At Noddy.
at catch someone napping (v.) under napping, n.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat F2: So fast, that all their gaines boyle out, Deepe-red to dye his pockie snout.
at pocky, adj.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E4: [A Roaring Rat] His tusks stiff-starch’d like a braue Mounser, / Of Turnebull-Puncks a staring Trouncer.
at roaring, adj.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E3: Constables [...] are Night-Sconces, out to seeke Night-Sneakers, Who late in Tauernes vp doe sit.
at sneaker, n.2
[UK] R. Speed Counter Rat F3: [A Black Rat] This second Smug, who had the staggers [...] This Smith so arm’d in Ale.
at staggers, n.
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat F2: [An Old gray Rat] Penny pots Of Sacke, which fall to him by lots, Payd him at weekes end by th’ old Trots, For shillings Each Monday lent them.
at trot, n.1
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E4: That Royster, vs to our trumps has put.
at put someone to their trumps (v.) under trump, n.2
[UK] R. Speed Counter-Rat E4: [A Roaring Rat] Why here (quoth we) — Why? zounds, because I tugg’d with Beares [...] But sure I mawld Mr. Constables Iawes.
at zounds!, excl.
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