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The Wandering Jew choose

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[UK] The Wandering Jew 21: You cry, give me Tobacco and a figg for Physitians.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 24: Duckes and Drakes make I with shillings, honest wives, drabbes, with poundes.
at ducks and drakes, n.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 17: Lords will play dice with you, Knights will call you Tom, and Jacke, and Dicke.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 62: Roaring Boyes whom whole streets of Constables (now and then) cannot tame.
at roaring boy, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 36: Hee’s entred with much adoe, like a Gentlewoman with a huge bum.
at bum, n.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 22: All this I know too, and neither am skilled, nor professe I any of these cunny-catching Sciences.
at cony-catching, adj.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 40: Who is this Ioculo? A melancholy Hee-Cat (sir) said the cracke.
at crack, n.2
[UK] The Wandering Jew 63: I [a hangman] am hated, revil’d by crack-halters, scolded at by fish-wives, and oftentimes after an Execution, almost beaten to death by them.
at crack halter (n.) under crack, v.2
[UK] The Wandering Jew 15: I have a rich London Widdow in chase [...] Tell me therefore now (worthy Jew) whether it be my Fortune to have this golden old girle or no.
at old gal, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 65: Hee knew the Hangman, and shooke him by the unlucky golls.
at goll, n.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 40: Is she gone forth? then his head akes, and heart pants, stayes she out long, then hee’s horn-mad; and runs bellowing like a Bull, up and downe to finde his Cow.
at horn-mad, adj.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 28: Your hot lust throwes Vlcers, Blanches, and the French Itch all over your body.
at itch, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 19: My sonne sweares he had rather thrust his head into a Jakes, than peepe into my chamber.
at jakes, n.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 38: A Kitchin stuffe-wench might pick up a living, by following me [...] I eate much.
at kitchen stuff (n.) under kitchen, n.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 38: He is a terrible Sheep-biter; a horrible Mutton-monger; a Gorbelly-Glutton.
at mutton-monger, n.2
[UK] The Wandering Jew 36: I am a money-monger of Fortie in the hundred.
at -monger, sfx
[UK] The Wandering Jew 36: Thou art Master to thy Money, and a slave to thy Muck.
at muck, n.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 18: Our yong Cockney laughed, shook his head [...] and so without so much as mum, sneaked away.
at mum!, excl.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 24: An old trot, a Beldame, a Witch looking in my hand, told me [...] I should dye a beggar.
at old trot (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 36: Tottered Beggers, (whom thou calledst thy dogges) pisse there on thy face in scorne.
at piss on, v.
[UK] Wandering Jew 66: I have seen fine fellows on their prauncers ride by mee.
at prancer, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 35: Some Gally-asse richly rigg’d, and I warrant richly laden.
at rig, v.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 49: I am a man of the Sword; a Battoon Gallant, one of our Dammees, a bouncing Boy, a kicker of Bawdes, a tyrant over Puncks, a terrour to Fencers, a mewer of Playes, a jeerer of Poets, a gallon-pot-slinger; in rugged English, a Roarer.
at roarer, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 63: If any theeving Tartarian shall break in upon you, I will with both hands nimbly lend a cast of my office to him.
at tartarian, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 24: Bawdes I kicke, Punkes I tumble.
at tumble, v.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 66: My right name is Tey-Bourne, and not Tiburne. Bourne signifies a River; and the River Tey, runs by me, sending his loue in Pipes to Holbourne: So, Tey-bourne feeds Holbourne, and Holbourne, Tiburne.
at Tyburn, n.
[UK] The Wandering Jew 19: That sacred Indian-weed, is restorative to me, Tobacco is my heaven on earth.
at weed, n.1
[UK] The Wandering Jew 61: I met a Yonker at your gate.
at younker, n.
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