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The Cobbler of Canterbury choose

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[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 18: The Goat! Cryes one of the women; the calfes head! said another; the asse-head! quoth the third.
at goat, n.1
[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 22: No man might hold it scorne On his head to graft a horne.
at graft, v.1
[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 22: His heade great, his browes broad [...] As no man might hold a scorne On his head to graft a horne.
at horn, n.1
[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 12: He had dubd him knight of the forked order.
at ...the forked order under knight of the..., n.
[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 15: Why how now Scull quoth hee? will no worse meat go downe with you then my wife?
at meat, n.
[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 12: Why how now sir sauce, quoth she [...] my husband is a wise man to send companions vp into the chamber where I am in bedde.
at Mr, n.
[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 20: A cuckold cried up is a peevish, snappish, quarrelsome ninny-hammer, who so wearies his wife with causeless jealousy, that in the end she gives him cause.
at ninnyhammer, n.
[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 4: Epistle: A Cobler become a corrector! ho, ho, ho: it was not so when Robin-Goodfellow was a Ruffler, and helpt the country wenches to grinde their malte.
at ruffler, n.
[UK] Cobbler of Canterbury (1976) 23: A Cobbler [...] who was woont [...] on holy daies to bestirre his stumps in the Church-yard so merrily.
at stir one’s stumps (v.) under stir, v.
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