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Knave of Hearts choose

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[UK] Rowlands Knave of Hearts n.p.: Which at the heeles so hants his frighted ghost, / That he at last in footmans inne must host, / Some castle dolorous composd of stone, / Like (let me see) Newgate is such a one [N].
at footman’s inn, n.
[UK] Rowlands Knave of Hearts 48: To such an end as my last line Concludes withall, the Hempen-twine.
at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] Rowlands Knave of Hearts 45: You sent me to the Doctors with your pisse, And by the way, the Vrinall did breake [...] pray you leake againe, And Ile to morrow, take some further paine.
at piss, n.
[UK] Rowlands ‘A Shee-Swaggerer’ Knave of Hearts 75: Defend your pate, your coxcombe, Ile not spare.
at coxcomb, n.
[UK] Rowlands Knave of Hearts 78: Though pyrates exempted be / From fatall Tyburne’s wither’d tree, / They have an harbour to arrive, / Call’d Wapping, where as ill they thrive, / As those that ride up Holbourne-hill. [Ibid.] Knave of Spades & Diamonds 109: You by this time stinke in Newgate jayle, / Where we will leave you till the cart do call, / To ride up Holbourne to the hangman’s hall.
at walk (backwards) up Holborn Hill (v.) under Holborn Hill, n.
[UK] Rowlands ‘A Drunken Knave’ Knave of Hearts 53: Boy y’are a villaine, didst thou fill this sacke? / ’Tis flat you Rascall, thou hast plaid the Jacke.
at play the jack (v.) under jack, n.2
[UK] Rowlands Knave of Hearts 48: We must be Tapsters running vp and downe With Cannes of Beere [malt sod in fishes broth] And those they say are fil’d with Nick and Froth.
at nick and froth (n.) under nick, n.2
[UK] Rowlands ‘Two Cony-Catchers Gull the Third’ Knave of Hearts 72: These two shifters thus devise a plot, To make their fellow drunkard pay the shot.
at pay one’s shot (v.) under shot, n.1
[UK] Rowlands Knave of Hearts 78: Though pyrates exempted be / From fatall Tyburne’s wither’d tree, / They have an harbour to arrive, / Call’d Wapping, where as ill they thrive, / As those that ride up Holbourne-hill.
at triple tree, n.
[UK] Rowlands Knave of Hearts 42: Another closely picking lockes, Never regarding hang-man’s feare, Till Tiburne-tiffany he weare.
at Tyburn tiffany (n.) under Tyburn, n.
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