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Three Ladies of London choose

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[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Mary, for Conscience tut, I care not two strawes.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Tush a figge for honestie.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Come giue me my ladies gowne thou assheaded elfe.
at assheaded, adj.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: I could neuer get my bellie full of meate.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London III: I tell you I am one that will not geue backe, Not for a double shot out of a blacke Jacke.
at black jack, n.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: O helpe, helpe, helpe, some good bodie.
at body, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: A bottes on thy motley beard, I know thee, thou art Dissimulation.
at bots, n.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Now thou art so proud with thy filching and cosening art, But I thinke one day thou wilt not be proude of the Rope and the Cart.
at cart, n.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Will ye buy any broome. Who bargen or chop with conscience, what will no customer come?
at chop, v.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: What a clinchpoope drudge is this – I can forbeare him no more.
at clinchpoop, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London III: Tell me, is it not a Lordes life in Sommer to lowse one under a hedge, And then leauing that game, may go clepe and coll his Madge?
at clip, v.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Thou doest nothing but cog, lie, and foist with hypocrisie.
at cog, v.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Thou hast honesty, sir reverence! come out, dog, where art thou?
at dog, n.2
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Packe hence away, Jacke Drums intertaine, she will none of thee.
at Jack Drum’s entertainment, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: I lent you two thousand ducets for three monthes space.
at ducat, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Thou doest nothing but cog, lie, and foist with hypocrisie.
at foist, v.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London III: A man like you in a greene field pendant, Hauing a hempen halter about his necke, with a knot under the left eare.
at halter, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Marry, farewell and be hang’d, sitten, scald, drunken Jew.
at hang, v.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London III: The Painter saies when he is hang, you may put out the knot without fear. I am sure they were armes, for there was written in Romaine letters round the hempen collar, Getten by the worthie valiant Captaine Maister Fraud.
at hempen collar (n.) under hempen, adj.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Huffe once aloft and if I may hit the right vayne [...] I will flaunt it and braue it.
at huff!, excl.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Come, sir Jack-sauce, make quick despatch at once.
at jack sauce (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: To catch it, and snatch it, we have the braue skill. Our fingers are lime-twigges, and Barbers we be, To catch sheetes from hedges most pleasant to see.
at lime-twig, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London I: For Lucar men come from Italy, Barbary [...] nay the Pagan himselfe, Indaungers his bodie to gape for her pelfe.
at pelf, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Thou hast honesty, sir reverence! come out, dog, where art thou? Even as much honesty as had my mother’s great hoggish sow.
at sir reverence! (excl.) under sir-reverence, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: No lesse then a Farmer, a right honest man.
at right, adv.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Now thou art so proud with thy filching and cosening art, But I thinke one day thou wilt not be proude of the Rope and the Cart.
at rope, n.
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: Enter Fraud with a Sword and a Buckler like a Ruffian.
at ruffian, n.1
[UK] Three Ladies of London II: But a me take your part so much against a scalde olde chirle called Hospitalitie.
at scald, adj.
[UK] Three Ladies of London III: Now he comes in Turkish weedes to defeat me of my money.
at weeds, n.
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