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Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 30: Thus kindly and in Courtesie, These few lines I have written, And now O love come kisse mine —— For I am all beshitten.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘In Praise of his Mistresses Beauty’ Wit and Drollery 28: With speckled Thighs, scab’d and scarce found; Her Knees like Bakers are.
at baker-kneed, adj.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘In Praise of Fat Men’ Wit and Drollery 88: So fat man’s bunghole being open, [...] His stench abundant forth doth send.
at bunghole, n.1
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 92: The hole was beshit that she could not sit, but did cack as she lay on her side.
at cack, v.1
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘Of Banishing the Ladies out of Town’ Wit and Drollery 65: Farewell good places old and new, And Oxford Kates once more adieu; But it goes unto our very hearts, To leave the Cheese-cakes and the Tarts.
at cheesecake, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘Long Vacation’ Wit and Drollery 82: He deriv’d had been, / From Cod of King and nock of Queen. [Ibid.] ‘On the Praise of Fat Men’ 91: In Winter morning you might catch Her hand on Cod, he finging Notch. Thus they do keep their fingers warm.
at cod, n.3
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘In Praise of fat Men’ Wit and Drollery 83: And make men sleepe when they should feast; Leaving untoucht a wholesome cony, Which sweeter is to man then money.
at cony, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 55: Just so the Cyprian Queen did lye, Expecting in her Bower, When too long stay, had kept the boy, Beyond his promised houre.
at Cyprian, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 94: There was an old Lad, rode on an old Pad, / Unto an old punk a woing; / He laid the old punk, upon an old trunk, / Oh there was good old doing.
at doing, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 37: Another had dallied with this my Dolly, that Dolly for all her faining, Had got such a Mountain above her Valley, that Dolly went home complaining.
at dolly, n.1
Mennis & Smith et al. Wit and Drollery 9: Your Bankrupt Citizens [...] laugh at their Creditors and their Catchpoles, Yet your Black-smith can fetch them over the Coales.
at fetch over the coals (v.) under fetch, v.1
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘An Epitaph on a Whore’ Wit and Drollery 20: Courteous she was [...] And in her calling so precise; That industry had made her prove, The fucking School-mistresse of Love.
at fucking, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. Wit and Drollery 153: To pickle pancakes in Geneva print.
at Geneva (print), n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘In Praise of Fat Men’ Wit and Drollery 89: Let us look ore the water there, Where guts are carried to the Beare: I meane that London spoiling burrough, Which you to Kent must ride clean thorough.
at carry guts to a bear (v.) under gut, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘On Luce Morgan a Common-Whore’ Wit and Drollery 19: Here lies black Luce, that Pick-hatch drab, Who had a word for every stab, Was lecherous as any Sparrow, Her Quiver ope to every Arrow.
at picked-hatch, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ in Wit and Drollery 92: She set up a Shop in Hony Lane Whereto the flies did flock amaine, Some flew from France and some from Spaine, Brought by the English Pander.
at honey, n.1
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 92: [var. on 1628] She set up a Shop in Hony Lane Whereto the flies did flock amaine, Some flew from France and some from Spaine, Brought by the English Pander. But when the Hony pot grew dry, And winter came, the Flies must dye.
at honeypot, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘An Answer’ Wit and Drollery 68: Mortalls tipple, mortalls tipple [...] Boon Companions will though jolly, Shrink in over-wetting streames.
at jolly, adj.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘Of Banishing the Ladies out of Town’ Wit and Drollery 65: Farewell good places old and new, And Oxford Kates once more adieu; But it goes unto our very hearts, To leave the Cheese-cakes and the Tarts.
at kate, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘In Praise of noble Liquor’ in Wit and Drollery 15: The only way to cure him [...] Must be the grate of Bishoppes gate / Where mad Tom will expect him / There let him drink old Sack, old Sack.
at mad Tom (n.) under mad, adj.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 55: Her thighs and belly, soft and faire, To me were only shewn, To have seen such meat, and not to have eat, Would have angred any stone.
at meat, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 94: There was an old Lad, rode on an old Pad, / Unto an old punk a woing; / He laid the old punk, upon an old trunk, / Oh there was good old doing.
at old lad (n.) under old, adj.
Mennis & Smith et al. Wit and Drollery 5: My pretty duck, my pigsnie.
at pigsnyes, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘The Answer’ Wit and Drollery 89: I Pray thee Drunkard get thee gone, / Thy Mistresse Sack doth smell too strong; / Think you I intend to wed / A sloven to be-piss my bed?.
at pissabed, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ Wit and Drollery 87: Pox take you, Mistris! I’ll be gone, I have freinds to wait upon.
at pox take —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ in Wit and Drollery 19: My Juggie my puggie, my hony my cony, / My love my dove my dear.
at puggy, n.
[UK] Mennis & Smith et al. ‘Of Banishing the Ladies out of Town’ Wit and Drollery 65: Farewell good places old and new, And Oxford Kates once more adieu; But it goes unto our very hearts, To leave the Cheese-cakes and the Tarts.
at tart, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘In Praise of Fat Men’ in Wit and Drollery 89: Let us look ore the water there, Where guts are carried to the Beare: I meane that London spoiling burrough, Which you to Kent must ride clean thorough.
at water, the, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘In Praise of his Mistresses Beauty’ Wit and Drollery 28: Her Belly Tun-like to behold, Her bush doth all excell, The thing that’s by, all men extol’d, Is wider then a Well.
at thing, n.
Mennis & Smith et al. ‘A Song’ in Wit and Drollery 22: Cupid is blind they say, But yet methinkes he seeth; He struck my heart to day, A Turd in Cupids teeth.
at turd in your teeth! (excl.) under turd, n.
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