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Four for a Penny, or, Poor Robin’s Character of a Pawnbroker choose

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[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 58: Yet, by these ten bones, I could right well, Ten times sooner all that believed.
at ten bones, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 46: poth.: It purgeth you clean from the choler; And maketh your stomach sore to walter, That ye shall never come to the halter. ped.: Then is that medicine a sovereign thing To preserve a man from hanging.
at halter, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 42: If I denied, I were a noddy.
at noddy, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 36: Great pins she must have, one or other; If she lose one, she will find another.
at pin, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 36: I beshrew thy knave’s naked heart, For making my wife’s pincase so wide The pins fall out.
at pin case (n.) under pin, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 37: But prick them and pin them as nice as ye will, And yet will they look for pinning still.
at pin, v.
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 37: But prick them and pin them as nice as ye will, And yet will they look for pinning still.
at prick, v.1
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 38: Sir, after drinking, while the shot is tinking; Some heads be swimming, but mine will be sinking.
at shot, n.1
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 37: The trimming and pinning up their gear; Specially their fiddling with the tail-pin.
at tail, n.
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 59: Now ten times I beseech him that high sits, Thy wife’s ten commandments may search thy five wits.
at ten commandments (n.) under ten, adj.
[UK] J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 59: Then ten of my turds in ten of thy teeth. And ten on thy nose.
at turd in your teeth! (excl.) under turd, n.
[UK] Four for a Penny 7: He is one of Deucalion’s By-blows, begotten of a Stone.
at by-blow, n.
[UK] Four for a Penny 4: Mrs. Joan when she is minded to see her Sweet-heart, and Gammer Blew-bottle going to a Christening, muster up the Pence o’th’ Saturday-night to redeem their best Riggings out of Captivity.
at bluebottle, n.
[UK] Four for a Penny 3: He is the Treasurer of the Thieves Exchequer, the Common Fender [sic] of all Bulkers and Shop-lifts in the Town.
at fencer, n.
[UK] Four for a Penny 5: We may reasonably conclude, that these Horse-leeches make Cent. per Cent. at least of their Mony in a year.
at horse leech (n.) under horse, n.
[UK] Four for a Penny 2: We here present you, Gentlemen, with a parcel of Beasts of prey.
at parcel, n.
[UK] Four for a Penny 4: Mrs. Joan when she is minded to see her Sweet-heart, and Gammer Blew-bottle going to a Christening, muster up the Pence o’th’ Saturday-night to redeem their best Riggings out of Captivity.
at rigging, n.1
[UK] Four for a Penny 8: Confound us, why do we wait? let’s Shop him.
at shop, v.1
[UK] Four for a Penny 8: The other meekly replies, Jack, be patient; ’tis a civil Gentleman, and I know will consider us : which species of Wheedling in Terms of their Art, is called Sweeten and Pinch.
at sweeten, v.
[UK] Four for a Penny 3: He playing the Pimp, lodges the Tabby-petticoat and Russet-breeches together in the same Bed of Lavender.
at tabby, n.
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