1597 Return from Parnassus Pt I I i: He [...] gave me fidler’s wages, and dismiste mee .at fiddler’s wages (n.) under fiddler, n.3
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II I ii: Such barmy heads wil alwaies be working, when as sad vinegar witts sit souring at the bottome of a barrell.at barmy, adj.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II I ii: What, a bel-wether in Paules Church-yard? So cald because it keeps a bleating.at bell-wether, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II V ii: The vsuall Christmas entertainment of Musicians, a black jack of Beer, and a Christmas Pye.at black jack, n.1
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II V iv: Are rymes become such creepers now a days? Presumptuous louse, that doth good manners lack, Daring to creepe vpon Poet Furors back.at creeper, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II IV ii: Base dog, tis not the custome in Italy to draw vpon euery idle cur that barkes.at dog, n.2
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II III ii: Her viol-de-gam is her best content; For ’twixt her legs she holds her instrument. Very knavish, very knavish, if you look into it.at instrument, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II I ii: Hath not Shore’s wife, although a light-skirts she, Giv’n him a chaste, long-lasting memory?at light skirt(s), n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II I ii: Would it not grieue any good spirits to sit a whole moneth nitting out a lousie beggarly Pamphlet.at lousy, adj.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II IV i: ’Sblood, a while ago, before he had me in the lurch, who but my cousin Prodigo?at lurch, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II IV ii: Now may it please thy generous dignity To take this vermin napping, as he lyes In the true lappe of liberality.at catch someone napping (v.) under napping, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II II iii: I am her needle, she is my adamant, She is my fair rose, I her unworthy prick.at needle, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II Prologue: Gentlemen you can play at noddy, or rather play vpon nodies.at noddy, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II II ii: Must his worships fists bee needs then oyled with Angells?at oil of angels (n.) under oil of..., n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II IV ii: The great protector of the thunder-bolts? He that is wont to pisse whole clouds of raine, Into the earth vast gaping vrinall.at piss, v.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II III ii: Whereas your proud Vniuersitie princox thinkes he is a man of such merit the world cannot sufficiently endow him with preferment.at princock, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II I ii: Me thinkes he is a Ruffian in his stile [...] He quaffes a cup of Frenchmans Helicon, Then royster doyster in his oylie tearmes, Cutts, thrusts, and foines at whomsoever he meets.at roister, n.
1606 Return from Parnassus Pt II III ii: They are pestilent fellowes, they speake nothing but bodkins, and pisse vinegar.at vinegar pisser (n.) under vinegar, n.