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The Return from Parnassus choose

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[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] Return from Parnassus Pt II II v: How say you to the crafty gull.
at gull, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] Return from Parnassus Pt II Prologue: Gentlemen you can play at noddy, or rather play vpon nodies.
at noddy, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
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