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‘The New Courtier’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 266: I cogg a dye, swagger and lye.at cog, v.
‘The New Courtier’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 266: I cogg a dye, swagger and lye. ‘Merry Discourse btwn a Country Lass & a Young Taylor’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III 605: And having groped her purse, / and taken all her money, / he grop’d again, and mist, / and caught her by the coney.at cony, n.
‘A Merry Discourse between a Country Lass & a Young Taylor’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III 605: Except you take your yard, / the depth of it to measure, / You’ll find the purse so deep, / you’ll hardly come to th’ treasure.at purse, n.
‘The Fayre Warning’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 372: If thou see a whoremonger passing at leisure, / Halfe fearfull his legs will drop off by the knees, / When every justle may do him displeasure, / He hath been so stung with the Turnbull-street bees: / when thou seest his case, beware of the place.at Turnbull Street bee, n.
ballad in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 58: And pretty Parell [sic] shewes her legs, / As slender as my waste.at parnel, n.
‘Excellent New Medley’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 14: Sure Meg is poyson’d for she swels.at poisoned, adj.
‘Blynd Eates many a Flye’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1897) VIII 685: If a Country Girl do chance to dance, and by that Jig be undone, She quickly is made whole again, by some Tradesmen in London.at jig, n.1
‘The Woman to the Plow’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 186: One morning with good intent, / The Cot-quean fool did surely dream, / For he had quite forgot the cream.at cotquean, n.
Whoremongers Conuersion in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 478: They’le learne you so much parly French, From you shall come a rotten stench [...] at Pickt-hatch I [...] Learn’d French of one that ne’r saw France.at learn French (v.) under French, n.
‘The Kind-Hearted Creature’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 160: And if it be a prety-cocke, then that w[ould] William be.at cock, n.3
‘Rocke the Cradle, John’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 164: And now this simple [fond] woodcocke the Cradle is constrain’d to rocke.at woodcock, n.
Industrious Smith broadside ballad in Roxburghe Ballads (1874) 99: Old debts must be paid, O why should they not, the fellow went home to pay the old shot.at pay the shot (v.) under shot, n.1
‘Cuckolds Haven’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 146: And then if Vulcan will but ride, some Cuckold shall be hornify’d.at hornify, v.
‘Cuckolds Haven’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 46: A woman that will be drunk, will eas’ly play the Punck; For when her wits are sunk all keyes will fit her Trunk.at key, n.1
‘Praise of a Pretty Lasse’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 308: Her down Breasts are swingers indeed.at swinger, n.2
‘North Country Lass’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1897) VIII 88: And then he pluckt his bag-pipes forth, and plai’d melodiously.at bagpipe, n.1
‘Cock-Lorrel’s Strange Banquet’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 217: And there he made such a breach with the wind, / The hole too standing open the while.at hole, n.1
‘Discontented Married Man’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 97: Wanton wenches will be ranging.at range, v.
‘Great Boobee’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 273: He call’d me Fool, and Country Clown, and great Boobee.at booby, n.1
‘The Merry Country Maid’s Answer’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 341: For rather than I’le marry such a Clownish Jack, / I’le buy a witty fellow cloath[e]s to put on ’s back.at clownish (adj.) under clown, n.
‘The Country Lover’s Conquest’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 339: What care I for coyn, since I have a stock?at coin, n.
‘The Merry Country Maid’s Answer’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 340: To this height and bigness he could crack and lie, / Yet our folks can witness he were scarce Hog-high.at crack, v.1
‘The Great Boobee’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 274: It [i.e. Westminster Abbey] was a fine sight to see; / Methought I was going to Heav’n in a String. / Like a great Boobee.at go to heaven in a string (v.) under heaven, n.
‘The Merry Country Maid’s Answer’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 341: For rather than I’le marry such a Clownish Jack, / I’le buy a witty fellow cloath[e]s to put on ’s back.at jack, n.2
‘The Merry Country Maid’s Answer’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 341: The space of half an hour this Lobcock he did prate.at lobcock, n.
in Roxburghe Ballads II 95: Men will call for it [i.e. tobacco] when malt’s above wheat.at have malt above the wheat (v.) under malt, n.
‘Merry Cuckold’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 256: Wiues chast appeare, yet they’l kisse now and then.at kiss, v.
‘Dead and Alive’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 387: There was a shaving royster as I heard many tell.at roister, n.
‘An Ancient Song of Bartholemew Fair’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 227: But the Cut-purses they do bite and run away, but those I suppose are Ill-Birds.at bird, n.1
‘An Ancient Song of Bartholemew Fair’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 227: But the Cut-purses they do bite and run away, but those I suppose are Ill-Birds.at bite, v.
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