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Wily Beguiled choose

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[UK] Wily Beguiled 13: I scorne that base, broking, brabbling, brauling, bastardly, bottlenos’d, beetle-brow’d bean-bellied name.
at beanbelly, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 13: I scorne that base, broking, brabbling, brauling, bastardly, bottlenos’d, beetle-brow’d bean-bellied name.
at beetle-brain (n.) under beetle, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 22: Faith I ha been in a faire taking, for you, a bots on you.
at bots, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 13: I scorne that base, broking, brabbling, brauling, bastardly, bottlenos’d, beetle-brow’d bean-bellied name.
at bottlenosed, adj.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 18: Yet hees a verie idiot and Browne bread Clowne.
at brown bread, adj.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 35: Give me but such an other word, and Ile be they tooth-drawer een of they butter tooth, thou toothlesse trot thou.
at butter teeth (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 48: How now foole? how now Caterpiller?
at caterpillar, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 45: She must recount her many griefes [...] And so cunningly temporize with this cunning Catso.
at catso, n.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 5: O this red chink, and silver coine, it is the consolation of the World.
at chink, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 70: Now, by cocke and pie, you never spoke a truer word in your life, hees a very kind gentleman.
at cock and pie! (excl.) under cock, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 14: O I had thought you would haue had a sacke to haue put this lawcracking cogfoyst in, instead of a paire of stockes.
at cog-foist (n.) under cog, v.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 13: Why, Robin Goodfellow is this same cogging, petifogging, crackeropes Calve-skin companion.
at crack-rope (n.) under crack, v.2
[UK] Wily Beguiled 34: Thy thrice vowed friend, / Is made a stale by this base cursed Crew / And damned den of vagrant runagates.
at crew, n.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 19: Ile fit my selfe to the olde crummy Churls humors, and make them believe Ile persuade Lelia to marry Peter Ploddall, and so get free accesse to the wench at my pleasure.
at crummy, adj.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 9: But damme me if they find it so.
at damme!, excl.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 31: Nay, Damne me if I be: / By heavens, sweet Nymph I am not.
at damn, v.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 57: Marry out upon him: what a Friday fac’t slave it is! I think in my conscience, his face never keepes Holiday.
at Friday face (n.) under Friday, n.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 44: He made me beleeve, he would go to greengoose faire, and Ile be sworn hee tooke his legges and ranne clean away.
at green goose (n.) under green, adj.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 32: Hang him, that has no shifts.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 16: Ile be hangd, if ere mistresse Lelia will ha Peter Ploddall.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 10: He pleades my want of wealth, / And saies it is a barre in Venus Court.
at Venus’s highway, n.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 49: Thou art my Cipherlillie; / And I thy Trangdidowne dilly, / And sing hey ding a ding ding: And do the tother thing, / And when tis done not misse, / To give my wench a kisse: / And then dance. / Canst thou not hit it?
at hit, v.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 17: Now I set my cap oth to side on this fashion (do ye see?) then say I, / Sweet hony, bonny, sugar candie, Pegge. [Ibid.] 22: Sweet Pegge, honny Pegge [...] my Love, my dove, my honnie.
at honey, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 16: A horne plague of this money, / For it causes many hornes to bud: / And for money many men are hornd.
at grow horns (v.) under horn, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 21: A Maid cannot love, or catch a lip clip, or a lap clap.
at lap-clap (n.) under lap, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 15: churms: Since when? wil.: Why since you were bumbasted, that your lubberly legges would not carrie your lobcocke bodie.
at lobcock, n.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 15: churms.: Since when? wil.: Why since you were bumbasted, that your lubberly legges would not carrie your lobcocke bodie.
at lubberly, adj.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 54: He so dotes on Peter Ploddalls pelfe.
at pelf, n.
[UK] Wily Beguiled 15: I am sure I saw them close together at Pup noddie in her Closet.
at poop-noddy (n.) under poop, n.1
[UK] Wily Beguiled 5: O this red chink, and silver coine, it is the consolation of the World.
at red, adj.
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