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The Last Will and Testament of Lawrence Lucifer, The Old Bachelor of Limbo ... being the Final Portion of the Black Book choose

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[UK] Middleton Black Book line 711: That arrest which I may fitly term by the name of cog-shoulder, when you clasp both sides [...] and receive double fee both from the creditor and debtor, swearing by the post of your office to shoulder-clap the party the first time he lights upon the lime-twigs.
at cog-shoulder, n.
[UK] Middleton Black Book line 741: I give and bequeath to you [...] especially the sixpenny rooms in Play-houses, to cut, dive, or nim.
at dive, v.
[UK] Middleton Black Book line 457: [I] therefore changed my shape into a little wapper-eyed constable, to wink and blink at small faults.
at wapper-eyed, adj.
[UK] Middleton Black Book in Works (2007) 212/2: Pierce was never so penniless as poor Lieutenant Frig-beard. [Ibid.] 215/2: I constitute and ordain Lieutenant Frig-beard, Archpander of England, my sole heir of all such lands, closes, and gaps as lie within the bounds of my gift.
at frig-beard (n.) under frig, v.
[UK] Middleton Black Book in Works VIII 34: I ordain lieutenant Prigbeard, archpander of England, my sole heir of all such lands, closes, and gaps as lie within the bounds of my gift.
at gap, n.1
[UK] Middleton Black Book line 103: Gilded nosed usurers, base metalled panders, To copper-captaines and Pickt-hatch commanders.
at picked-hatch, n.
[UK] Middleton Black Book line 78: For they’re as dark within [...] As is the Hole at Newgate.
at hole, n.1
[UK] Middleton Black Book line 741: I give and bequeath to you [...] especially the sixpenny rooms in Play-houses, to cut, dive, or nim.
at nim, v.
[UK] Middleton Black Book in Works (1840) 541: Or if neither, you will find talk with some shark-shift by the way, and give him the marks of the party, who will presently start before you.
at shark-shift (n.) under shark, n.
[UK] Middleton Black Book line 331: The race of lusty vaulting gallants, that instead of a French horse, practise upon their mistresses all the nimble tricks of vaulting.
at vault, v.
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