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The Compter Scuffle: or, the prisoners in an uproar choose

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[UK] R. Speed Compter Scuffle 10: Thou cogging / Base foysting Lawyer, thou dost set / Thy Mind on nothing but to get / Thy Living by thy damned Pettifogging.
at cog, v.
[UK] R. Speed Compter Scuffle 20: She took a Dishclout off the Shelf, / And with it wip’d the shitten Elf, / Which did not have Wit to wipe itself, poor Shit-breech.
at shitten, adj.
[UK] R. Speed Compter Scuffle 12: Wer’t not for us, thou Swab (quoth he) / Where would thou Fog to get a Fee?
at swab, n.
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