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Covent Garden Mag. Dec. 234/1: To church they both went, and the parson in brief, / Saids grace for the butcher to be in her beef.at be in a woman’s beef (v.) under beef, n.1
Covent Garden Mag. Dec. 234/1: To church they both went, and the parson in brief, / Saids grace for the butcher to be in her beef. Covent Garden Mag. Dec. 234/1: Whene’er she inclined to sup, breakfast, or dine, / She might also be be fed with a bit next the loin.at bit, n.1
‘Verses on an amorous old Man’ in Covent Garden Mag. Dec. 234/2: Still hov’ring round the fair, at sixty-four, / Unfit to love, unfit to give o’er, / A flesh-fly, that just flutters on the wing, / Awake to buz, but not alive to sting.at flesh-fly (n.) under flesh, n.
Covent Garden Mag. Dec. 234/1: Attend, ye young virgins, to this moral tale, / Dispose of your meat ere it hangs till ’tis stale.at meat, n.
Covent Garden Mag. Dec. 233/2: Madame de Beaufort’s smooth, white hand, / And pretty pouting nib, Sir, / French Henry brave did use to kiss.at nib, n.1
Covent Garden Mag. Dec. 234/1: He begg’d he might lead her to church to the vicar, / And threaten’d, wity oaths, that he shortly would stick her.at stick, v.
Covent Garden Mag. Mar. 95/2: He was discovered by Miss ——, who, unluckily opened the door, and espied him in the very scene of action; demanded Mrs. B ’s socket-money, which she refusing, high words ensuing [etc.].at socket-money (n.) under socket, n.
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