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[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Bi: I care nat for the an olde straw [...] Therefore preche hardely thy belly full / But I neuer the les wyll declare the popes bull.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Bi: I care nat for the an olde straw [...] Therefore preche hardely thy belly full / But I neuer the les wyll declare the popes bull.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Aiii: Lo, of saynt Mychell eke the brayn pan / Which for the hed ake is a preseruatyse / To euery man.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Aiv: Mary what standest thou there all day clatterrynge.
at clatter, v.1
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Biii: And yf thou playe me suche another touche / Ish knocke thee on the costarde.
at costard, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Biv: By gogges foule knaue I suffre the no longer.
at gog, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Biii: Leue thy railynge and babbelynge of freres / Or by Jys Ish lug thee by the swete eares.
at by Jis! (excl.) under Jis, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Biv: No more of this wranglyng in my chyrch, I shrewe your hartys bothe for this lurche.
at lurch, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Aiv: Mary what standest thou there all day clatterrynge.
at marry!, excl.
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Biv: Wherefore by saynt John thou shalt not escape me / Till thou hath scouryd a pare of stokys.
at scour, v.1
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Ai: I com not hyther to poll nor to shave.
at shave, v.
[UK] J. Heywood Pardoner and Friar Biii: And yf thou playe me suche another touche / Ish knocke thee on the costarde.
at touch, n.1
[UK] T. Heywood Edward IV (1874) I 18: Flat-caps thou call’st us. We scorne not the name.
at flat-cap, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Edward IV (1874) I 72: My son’s in Dybell here, in Caperdochy, itha gaol.
at cappadochio, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Edward IV (1874) I 40: What the dickens? is it loue that makes ye prate to me so fondly?
at what the dickens!, excl.
[UK] T. Heywood Edward IV (1874) I 84: I yeelded vp the fort, Wherein lay all the riches of my joy; But yet, sweete Shore, before I yeelded it, I did indure the longst and greatest siege That euer batterd on poor chastity.
at fort, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Edward IV (1874) I 440: No; by my feckins, but the better.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] T. Heywood Edward IV (1874) I 67: shore: What came he heere to cheapen at our shop? jane: This jewell, loue.
at jewel, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Edward IV (1874) I 11: See how Saint Katherines smokes; wipe, slaues your eies, And whet your stomackes for the good mault pies.
at maltpie (n.) under malt, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Edward IV (1874) I 38: Commend me to blacke Luce, bouncing Bess, and lusty Kate, and the other pretty morsels of man’s flesh. Farewell, pink and pinnace, flibote and caruel, Turnbull and Spittal!
at pink, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece (1874) 256: My Willy, my Billy, my hony, my cony, / my love, my dove, my deare.
at cony, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece (1638) (1874) V 201: She ha good clothes, with a faire Roman nose, / For that’s the sign of a striker.
at striker, n.1
[UK] T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece (1874) V 194: A song of all the pretty suburbians.
at suburbian, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece Let every man get him a love, To trim her well, and fight no more.
at trim, v.
[UK] T. Heywood Faire Maid of the West Pt I IV i: Shall I be a welcome suiter now? That I have chang’d my Copie?
at change one’s copy (v.) under change, v.
[UK] T. Heywood Faire Maid of the West Pt I II i: I could wish that ere I past this field That I could meet some Hector, so your eyes Might witnesse what my selfe have oft repeated, Namely that I am a valiant.
at hector, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Faire Maid of the West Pt I I i: capt.: Come to the Castle then. Goodl.: What, to the old house still?
at house, n.1
[UK] T. Heywood Faire Maid of the West Pt I V i: Is this your Moorish preferment to rob a man of his best jewel.
at jewel, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Faire Maid of the West Pt I III i: What wine will you drink? Claret [...] Aragoosa, or Peter-see-mee.
at peter see me, n.
[UK] T. Heywood Faire Maid of the West Pt I IV i: My teeth are as strong to grind bisket [...] my stomachke as able to digest pouderd beefe and Poore-john.
at poor john (n.) under poor, adj.
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