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Merry-Thought, or, The Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany choose

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[UK] graffito in Merry-Thought III 8: A ’Pothecary’s Wife, Who never lov’d her Spouse in all her Life; And for want of his handle, Made use of a candle.
at handle, n.
[UK] graffito in Merry-Thought (1731) I 18: If the Husband had come And had seen his Wife’s B—m, He’d a known by her Looks, She’d been playing-At Hoy Gammer Cooks.
at play hey gammer cook (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Glass Window, or, Bog-house Miscellany (1731) C: Tis very true; for we saw Rem-in-Re through the Key-Hole [...] Feb. 3 1728.
at caught with rem-in-re, phr.
[UK] Glass Window, or, Bog-house Miscellany B: Old maids, in Vengeance to their slighted Beauty, / [...] / Thro' H—ll they drag ye on most aukward Shapes, / Yoak’d in their Apron-Strings, and led for Apes.
at ape-leader, n.
[UK] Glass Window, or, Bog-house Miscellany B2: Dean's Yard, Westminster, in Charcoal, on a Wall, a Verse to be read upwards or downwards or arsey-versey the same.
at arsey-varsey, phr.
[UK] Merry-Thought II 13: [on a tavern wall] Wer’t not for Whims, Candles, and Carrots, Young Fellows Things might ride in Chariots [...] Thank Heaven for all those Helps to Nature, Or else poor P– could get no Quarter.
at carrot, n.
[UK] Merry-Thought II 8: When I lay with my bouncing Nell, I gave her an Inch, and she took an Ell: But [...] it was damnable hard, When I gave her an Inch, she’d want more than a Yard.
at ell, n.
[UK] Merry-Thought III 5: Debauch’d by Henry Rig, Who gave me a Jigg, But not one Grigg: Howe’er he ran his Rigg.
at jig, n.1
[UK] Glass Window, or, Bog-house Miscellany B2: Here's a Health to Mich. Hunt, / And to Mich. Hunt's Breeches; / And why may not I scratch Mich. Hunt, / When Mich. Hunt itches].
at michael, n.
[UK] Merry-Thought III 3: I poop’d her behind, but no Body see’t, And she prov’d ne’er the worse for my using.
at poop, v.1
[UK] Merry-Thought II 10: A Ramp of very noted Name, . . . Lascivious, as the human Race could be, She could not see a Man, but fell in Extasy.
at ramp, n.1
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