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Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cap choose

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[UK] Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cap 7: His Elynor whose fame [?] saile, / All England for Nappy Ale.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cap 14: Some wenches come [...] With their naked pappes, / That flippes and flappes.
at paps, n.1
[UK] Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cap 2: The Pimlyconians are most of them Malt-men [...] they liue not long, for a man can hardly stay amongst them two dayes: if he doe, he is in great danger, by reason of a certaine disease [...] called the Staggers, through which, many of them come to their Downe-fall.
at staggers, n.
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