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Nice Wanton choose

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[UK] Nice Wanton Biiii: I have caught two birds, I will set for the dame, / If I catch her in my clutch, I will her tame.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Nice Wanton Aiiii: That knauve your brother wyl be a blabbe styll.
at blab, n.
[UK] Nice Wanton Aiiii: I could tell you who putteth a bone in your hood.
at put a bone in someone’s hood (v.) under bone, n.1
[UK] Nice Wanton Bi: Thou boy, by the masse ye wyll clyme the ladder.
at climb the ladder (v.) under climb, v.
[UK] Nice Wanton Biiii: Al’was good, that these tiddyinges do might, Sweare, lye, steale, scolde or fight: Cardes, dyce, kysse, clippe, and so furth.
at clip, v.1
[UK] Nice Wanton Aiiii: He hath whores two or three, But ich tell your minion doll, by gogs body: It skylleth not she doth holde you as muche.
at doll, n.1
[UK] Nice Wanton Aiiii: By gogs bloud she is the best whore in England.
at gog, n.
[UK] Nice Wanton Aiiii: Golde lockes, / She must haue knockes, / Or els I do her wronge.
at knock, n.1
[UK] Nice Wanton Aii: I had rather be hanged were, Then I would syt quakyng like a mome for feare.
at mome, n.
[UK] Nice Wanton Aii: ismael: Spyn, quod ha, yea by the mass, and your heles up wynd, For a good mouse hunt, is cat after kyng. barnabas: Lewd speakyng corrupteth good maners.
at mouse, n.
[UK] Nice Wanton B1: Do ye nycke us be knaue your noly, [...] Take the dice Dalila, cast on.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Nice Wanton A iiii: What ye pryincockes, begin ye to raue?
at princock, n.
[UK] Nice Wanton Biiii: Suche a jade she is and so curst a quene, She would out scold the deuils dame.
at quean, n.
[UK] Nice Wanton Ci: Ye winked at their faultes, and tidled them alway.
at tiddle, v.1
[UK] Nice Wanton Aiii: This wenche can synge, And play her parte.
at wench, n.
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