1628 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.
1628 R. Speed Counter-Rat E4: Vp comes the Bredah-Bouncer [...] Of Turnebull-Punks a staring Trouncer.at bouncer, n.1
1628 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
1628 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
1628 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
1628 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.
1628 R. Speed Counter-Rat F4: [A long-tail’d Rat] He was no Hog-grubber.at hog-grubber (n.) under hog, n.
1628 R. Speed Counter-Rat E3: Aske any how such newes I tell, Of Wood-streets Hole, or Poultries Hell?at hole, n.1
1628 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
1628 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.
1628 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.
1628 R. Speed Counter-Rat F2: So fast, that all their gaines boyle out, Deepe-red to dye his pockie snout.at pocky, adj.
1628 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.
1628 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
1628 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.
1628 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
1628 R. Speed Counter-Rat E4: That Royster, vs to our trumps has put.at put someone to their trumps (v.) under trump, n.2
1628 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.