Green’s Dictionary of Slang
J. Johnson Academy of Love 88: The Bag-pipe [...] is a wind instrument, and never playes but when the bag is full.at bagpipe, n.1
J. Johnson Academy of Love 99: The young sparkish Girles would read in Shakespeare day and night, so that they would open the Booke or Tome, and the men with a Fescue in their hands should point to the Verse.at fescue, n.
J. Johnson Academy of Love 25: [A] ravenous Strumpet, . . . that any one might play upon their virgin string, that harmonious minikin string of her lute, that could but shew his silver pen.at lute, n.1
J. Johnson Academy of Love 79: This is, said Cupid, our Fencing Schoole [where] men shall fence against women, who although they chance to make a thrust gainst these weaker vessels, and pierce them at least two handfull deepe, yet the wound is not mortall.at pushing school, n.
J. Johnson Academy of Love 101: If the men adventure against the women at tick-tack, they are certaine to lose all they play for, and if the men lose all, then the women desire them to play at Passage amongst themselves.at tick-tack, n.1
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