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Ram-Alley, or, Merrie Trickes choose

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[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: A fico for her Docke, youle not be ruld.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: You wed my daughter? [...] You, sir Ambo-dexter, A Sumners sonne!
at ambidexter, n.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Bloud dost thinke I haue not learnt my prick-song, What not the coutt prick-song? One vp and another downe.
at up-and-down, n.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Sure this Baboune is a great Puritane.
at baboon, n.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley II i: Has the gudgin bit?
at bite, v.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley V i: Giue me that lustie lad, That wins his widdow with his well-drawne blade.
at blade, n.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley I i: Blurt maister gunner, your linstocks too short.
at blurt!, excl.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Throarte, thou art bobd.
at bob, v.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley V i: And I ingag’d my worth, and ventur’d life On yonder buffolne face, to have men scorne, And point at my disgrace.
at buffle, n.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley V i: Why my good father what should you do with a wife? Would you be crested? will you needs thrust your head In one of Vulcans Helmets? Will you perforce Wear a Citty cappe and a Court feather?
at bull’s feather (n.) under bull, n.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Women please men, men pleasure them againe, Ka me, ka thee, one thing must rub another [...] You know the law has trickes, ka me, ka thee.
at claw me and I’ll claw you under claw, v.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: That’s all the fault Old Iustces haue, where they are at feasts, They will bib hard, they will be fine Sun-burnt, Sufficent, foxt, or Columberd now and than.
at columbered, adj.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: The damn’d crew With glaues and clubs haue rapt her from these armes.
at crew, n.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: A nimble spirited knaue, the villaine boy [...] has got the wench [...] Has done the deed, has pierst the vesslls head.
at do the deed (of darkness) (v.) under deed, n.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: A fico for her Docke, youle not be ruld.
at dock, n.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: I goe, To hunt no Buck, but prick a lusty Doe. [Ibid.] IV i: Old men they can be fine, with a small doe.
at doe, n.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley II i: In good Decorum I had as good conuayance, And could haue ferd, and ferkt y’away a wench.
at ferk, v.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: thr.: Ile passe my words. bea.: Foutre words are wind.
at foutre!, excl.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: That’s all the fault Old Iustces haue, where they are at feasts, They will bib hard, they will be fine Sun-burnt, Sufficent, foxt, or Columberd now and than.
at foxed, adj.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley I i: That little land he gave, Throte the lawyer swallowed in one gob For less than half the worth.
at gob, n.2
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Those clawes shall claw you to a barre of shame, Where thou shalt show thy Goll, Ile barre your claim.
at goll, n.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: And is not her halfe-moone mine?
at half-moon, n.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley V i: The villaine boy has one tricke of his sire, Has firkt away the wench, has pierst the hogshead.
at pierce the hogshead, v.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Where be these raskcals that skip vp and downe, Faster then Veirginall iacks?
at jack, n.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Nor can a citty common Iakes, Which all mens Breeches vndertakes, Yeeld fasting stomakes such a sauour, As doth his breath and vgly fauour.
at jakes, n.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Your iumblings In horsflitters, coaches or caroatches, Haue spoild so many woman.
at jumble, v.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: Comfort her teares and say her daughters matcht. With one that has a knocker to his father, An honest Noble Knight.
at knocker, n.1
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley II i: Why so, these are tricks of the long fifteenes, To giue counsell, and to take fees on both sides .
at long fifteen (n.) under long, adj.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: Haue I not plac’d [...] My Cannons, Demi-cannons, Basilisks, Vpon her breach, and do I not stand, Ready with my Pike to make my entry, And are you come to man her?
at man, v.
[UK] L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: As is a knife vnsheath’d with th’ hungry maw, Threatning the ruine of a chine of Beefe.
at maw, n.
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