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The History of Jacob and Esau choose

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[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: I set not a strawe by you nor a pinne.
at not care a straw, v.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: I set not a strawe by you nor a pinne.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: Come out thou mother Mab, out olde rotten witche, As white as midnightes arsehole, or virgin pitche.
at white as midnight’s arsehole (adj.) under arsehole, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: Come out, thou mother Mab; out, old rotten witch! / As white as midnight’s arsehole or virgin pitch.
at arsehole, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau I i: He hath either some wormes or bottes in his braine.
at bots, n.1
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: The best ende of suretiship is to get a clappe.
at clap, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau II iv: What saist thou drawlatch? come forth, with a mischeef.
at draw-latch, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: If [...] thou are caught in a trippe, Nay for his sake, Abza, ye shall drinke of the whippe.
at drink on the whip (v.) under drink, v.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau II iv: And Jacob first to haue a fart syr reuerence.
at fart, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V iv: Ah hypocrite, ah hedgecreeper, ah sembling wretche: I will be euen with thee for this subtill fetche.
at fetch, n.1
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V iv: Oh woulde not this chafe a man, and fret his guts out?
at gut, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau II iv: A man were better syll the bellies [...] Than to fill the gutte of one such whoreson elfe.
at gut, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V iv: Ah hypocrite, ah hedgecreeper, ah sembling wretche.
at hedge-creeper (n.) under hedge, adj.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau II ii: There is not this daye all the worlde rounde Suche an other hodypeake wretche to be founde.
at hoddy peak, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V iv: I will take no daies, but while the matter is hotte, Not one of them shall scape, but they shall to the potte.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: If I wrought one stroke to day, lay me on the iacke.
at lay on the jack (v.) under jack, n.2
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: Come out thou little fiend, come out thou skittish Gill.
at jill, n.1
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau II iv: If I had bidden from meate any longer, I thinke my very mawe would haue frette asonder.
at maw, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: What ye saucie merchaunt, are ye a prater now?
at merchant, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau I i: No, that were in vaine: Alas, good simple mome.
at mome, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V vi: What ye saucie merchaunt, are ye a prater now?
at prater, n.1
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau V x: It is your deinty dearlyng, your princkoxe, your golpoll.
at princock, n.
[UK] Hist. of Jacob and Esau II iv: And Jacob first to have a fart syr reuerence.
at sir reverence! (excl.) under sir-reverence, n.
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