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‘No Money, no Friend’ in Coll. English Ballads no. 67 🎵 Each Tap-lach [...] Would cringe and bow, and swear to be My Servant to Eternity.at tap-lash (n.) under tap, n.4
‘No Money, no Friend’ in Coll. English Ballads no. 67 🎵 Each Tap-lach [...] Would cringe and bow, and swear to be My Servant to Eternity. ‘The British Spy’ in Coll. of English Ballads 86: I sat down and began to write / These verses to show the world’s all a bite, / Honesty’s all out of fashion.at bite, n.1
‘British Spy’ in Collection of Eng. Ballads 86: Here’s fat guts the butcher.at fatguts (n.) under fat, adj.
‘The British Spy’ Collection of Eng. Ballads
86: They have so much got in fashion of taking of snuff / If you ask for a ha’peth shop-keepers will huff.at huff, v.
‘The British Spy’ Collection of Eng. Ballads
86: Here’s swill tub the publican.at swill-tub (n.) under swill, n.
‘A Bull in a China-Shop’ Collection of Eng. Ballads 84: What e’er with his feet he could not assail, / He makes ducks and drakes with his horns and his tail.at ducks and drakes, n.1
‘Katty O’Lynch’ in Coll. of English Ballads 109: The next time we met, she ball’d out in a pet, / Arrah! Paddy, you’ll soon drive me crazy.at bawl out, v.1
‘The Cabin Boy’ Collection of Eng. Ballads 96: Alack! I’m lost at sea, / Why sure in Davy’s locker, / There’s room enough for me.at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
‘The Doctrine of an Israelite’ in Coll. of English Ballads 102: I never stick at trifles when there’s monish in the way!at monish, n.
‘Bold Irishman’ Collection of Eng. Ballads
91: A beef-headed butcher was then standing by.at beefheaded (adj.) under beefhead, n.
‘Bold Irishman’ Collection of Eng. Ballads
91: The bully that threaten’d to bang out my eye, / I tipt him a grinder as I passed by.at grinder, n.1
‘Jack’s the Lad’ Collection of Eng. Ballads
106: D’ye hear the merry fiddle going? / Blood it sets me off a toe-ing —.at toe, v.
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