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Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests choose

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[UK] Robin Goodfellow n.p.: I so pay their armes that they cannot sometimes untye them, if they would.
at pay, v.
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests A3: I lapt in so much of this nappy liquor, that it begot in me a boldnesse to talke.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests E3: Maids in your smocks, Looke well to your locks, and your tinder Boxe.
at box, n.1
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests E1: They kissed, and clipped, And yet it was counted no crime.
at clip, v.1
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests E3: Maids in your smocks, Looke well to your locks, and your tinder Boxe.
at firelock (n.) under fire, n.
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests E1: They set up shop in Hunny lane, And thither flies did swarme amine, Some from France, and some from Spaine, Train’d in by scurvy Panders: At last this hunny pot grew dry, Then both were forced for to flye To Flanders.
at honeypot, n.
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests D1: He came to a Vaulting Schoole Where tumblers use to be; He likt his sport so well, That from it hee’d not part.
at vaulting house, n.
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests D3: There was a Tapster that with his pots smalnesse, and with frothing of his drinke, had got a good summe of money together. This nicking of the pots he would not neuer leaue.
at nick-pot (n.) under nick, n.2
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests F1: When I finde a slut asleepe, I smatch her face if it be cleane, but if it be dirty I wash it in the next pisse pot that I find.
at pisspot, n.
[UK] Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests E1: They set up shop in Hunny lane, And thither flies did swarme amine, Some from France, and some from Spaine, Train’d in by scurvy Panders: At last this hunny pot grew dry, Then both were forced for to flye To Flanders.
at shop, n.1
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