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The History of Jack Horner choose

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[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 10: A jug of nappy liquor brown.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 8: At last she tumbl’d down, and then he bit her by the arse.
at arse, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 11: Among the rest six jolly blades, Did with these crowders come.
at blade, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 4: Jack frights a Taylor for cabbaging Cloth out of his Coat.
at cabbage, v.1
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 10: What’s your request I’ll not deny, And so old dad, farewell] .
at dad, n.2
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 22: He cram’d all these into his maw.
at maw, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 5: The Taylor said, Speak who art thou? Quoth Jack, Thy friend Old Nick.
at Old Nick, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 20: My precious nutmegs doe not wound, For fear I should not live.
at nutmegs, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 8: So then she pist upon his head, And put out both his eyes.
at piss, v.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 18: They caper’d high, the piss did fly.
at piss, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 18: The maid [...] came up in her smock, The sight he saw was a surprise, Perceiving such large swingers.
at swinger, n.2
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 23: Jack cut and slash’d his swinging tripes, Thus grieved the giant sore.
at swinging, adj.1
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 17: She laid one hand upon his tool.
at tool, n.1
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 8: [as cit. 1750].
at arse, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jack Horner 17: He indeed did want to piss, and to the pot must go.
at piss, v.
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