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[UK] Fletcher Chances I iv: Sure he has encountred Some light o’ Love or other, and there means To play at in and in for this Night.
at play (at) in and in (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Fletcher Chances II i: I thought ye had been a Bat-fowling.
at bat-fowling, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances IV iii: What Blood have I now? [...] By this Light ’tis he, Frederick.
at blood, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Chances II ii: My Master bo-peeps with me, With his sly popping in and out again.
at play at bo-peep (v.) under bo-peep, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances I vii: If he be a bobbing, ’Tis not my care can cure him: To morrow morning I shall have further knowledge from a Surgeon’s – Where he lyes moor’d, to mend his leaks.
at bob, v.2
[UK] Fletcher Chances I iv: Well Don John, If you do spring a Leak, or get an Itch, Till ye claw off your curl’d Pate, thank your Night-walks; You must be still a boot halling.
at boothale, v.
[UK] Fletcher Chances I vi: ’Sdeath, have I known Wenches thus long, all the ways of Wenches [...] And am I now bum-fidled with a Bastard?
at bum fiddle, v.
[UK] Fletcher Chances I vi: A beavy of these Butter-prints.
at butter-print (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Chances IV iii: bawd: A poor Gentlwoman That lies in Town, about Law Business, An’t like your Worships. petr.: You shall have Law, believe it. bawd: I’ll shew your Mastership my Case. petr.: By no means, I had rather see a Custard. bawd: My dead Husband Left it even thus, Sir. john: Bless mine Eyes from Blasting, I was never so frightened with a case.
at case, n.2
[UK] Fletcher Chances II i: A chopping Child, Man [...] A Lump of Lewdness.
at chopping, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Chances V iii: Now the Devil indeed Lay his ten Claws upon thee.
at claw, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances II iii: That pure fire Has melted out her Maiden-head: She is crack’d.
at cracked, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Chances III iv: I privy to this Dog-trick?
at dog trick (n.) under dog, n.2
[UK] Fletcher Chances V iii: I drew the Lady Unto my Kinsman’s here, only to torture Your Don-ships for a day or two.
at don, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances III i: But how ye may abuse my House? not satisfy’d With bringing home your Bastards to undo me, But you must drill your Whores here too?
at drill, v.1
[UK] Fletcher Chances I ix: Ye found an easie Fool that let you get it.
at easy, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Chances III i: Thou took’st me up at every word I spoke As I had been a Mawkin, a flirt Gillian.
at flirt-gill (n.) under flirt, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances IV iii: You Lady Leachery, For the good-will I bear to th’ Game, most tenderly Shall be led out, and lash’d.
at game, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances III i: If this geer hold, Best hang a Sign-post up, to tell the Signiors, Here ye may have Lewdness at Livery.
at gear, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances III i: ’Twere not for abusing thy Geneva print.
at Geneva (print), n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances I vi: Without commission: Why, it would never grieve me, If I had got this Ginger-bread.
at gingerbread, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Chances I ix: Your Brats got out of Alligant and broken Oaths? Your Linsey Woolsey work, your Hasty Puddings?
at hasty pudding, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Chances IV iii: What should our Hen o’th’ Game else Do here without her?
at hen of the game (n.) under hen, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances III iv: john.: I know it by my selfe there can be no Hell To his that hangs upon his Hopes; especially In way of lustly Pleasures. pet.: He has hit it.
at hit it, v.
[UK] Fletcher Chances IV iii: ’Tis so; that House, Sir.
at house, n.1
[UK] Fletcher Chances I vi: Come good wonder, Let you and I be jogging.
at jog, v.
[UK] Fletcher Chances II ii: anthony: Thou hast such a Master for that chase, That till he spend his maine Mast—— peter: Pray remember Your courtesie good Anthony; and withall, How long ’tis your Master sprung a leak, He had a sound one since he came.
at take a leak (v.) under leak, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances I iv: Sure he has encountred Some light o’ Love or other, and there means To play at in and in for this Night.
at light o’ love, n.
[UK] Fletcher Chances II iii: She is loose i’th hilts by Heav’n.
at loose in the hilt(s) (adj.) under loose, adj.
[UK] Fletcher Chances III i: She’ll grow stark mad, Man.
at man, n.
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