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Tom Tel-Troths message, and his pens complaint choose

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[UK] Tom Tel-troths Message 41: One other mate she hath call’d Dronkennesse, A bibbing swilbowle and a bowzing gull.
at bousing, n.
[UK] Tom Tel-troths Message 43: Thousands of Whores [...] Infect mens bodies with the French disease.
at French disease (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] Tom Tel-troths Message 41: With gobs she fils and stuffes her greedie gorge.
at gob, n.2
[UK] Tom Tel-troths Message 21: Fine-ruft Ruffines in their brauerie Make cringing cuts [...] Some princk and pranck it.
at prink, v.
[UK] Tom Tel-troths Message 32: Wrath is the cause that maketh euery streete / A Shambles, and a bloodie butcherie, / Where roysting ruffins quarrell for their drabs.
at roister, n.
[UK] Tom Tel-troths Message 41: One other mate she hath call’d Dronkennesse, A bibbing swilbowle and a bowzing gull.
at swill-tub (n.) under swill, n.
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