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The Coxcomb choose

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[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb I vi: Then set your foot to my foot, and up tails all!
at up-tails-all, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II ii: By these ten bones, I’ll turn she-ape, and untile / A house, but I’ll have it.
at ten bones, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II ii: Come, prithee, let’s shog off, and bouse an hour or two.
at bouse, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II ii: Sheathe your bung, whore!
at bung, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb V i: No; nor I care not twopence, those are toys.
at not care twopence, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II ii: I’ll clout thy old bald brain-pan.
at clout, v.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II ii: Cool / Your codpiece, rogue! or I’ll clap a spell upon ’t.
at cod-piece (n.) under cod, n.3
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II iii: Go quietly, or I’ll make your crupper crack.
at crupper, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II ii: I’m glad to hear your curtal’s grown so lusty; / He was dry-founder’d t’other day; weehee.
at curtal, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb I vi: Marry, sweet love, e’en here: lie down; I’ll feese you.
at feeze, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II iii: Ere ye go, sirrah Thatch’d-head! / Would’st not thou be whipt, and think it justice?
at thatched head, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb I v: I am monstrous hot with wine.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb IV vii: What jiggumbob have we here?
at jiggumbob, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb I vi: I’ll [...] lay you fast enough.
at lay, v.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb V i: Being a little mellow in his ale.
at mellow, adj.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II ii: Here comes a night-shade.
at nightshade (n.) under night, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb IV iii: Pray God, he have not cast away himself / Upon some snout-fair piece!
at piece, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb I iii: But these women, / When they are once thirteen, God speed the plough!
at plough, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb III ii: Hold fair, shamrock!
at shamrock, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb V i: A sober pretty maid, about seventeen, / They say, certainly, howsoever, ’tis shuffled.
at shuffle (off) (this/one’s mortal coil) (v.) under shuffle, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb I iv: They had no mothers; they are the sons of bitches.
at sonofabitch, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb IV iv: Pray, spout some French, son.
at spout, v.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb V i: Either of which, if I can catch, shall stretch for ’t.
at stretch, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II i: If she speak longer, I shall be a knave, / As rank as ever sweat for’t.
at sweat, v.2
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb I ii: Udsfoot! – Good sir, what’s she that leads the dance? [Ibid.] II iii: ’Uds me, our Dorothy went away but last week.
at ud, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb II ii: Let’s have no pity [...] here’s that shall cut your whistle.
at whistle, n.
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