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Beggar’s Bush choose

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[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.
at abram-man, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Ay, and possess / What he can purchase, back or belly-cheats.
at belly cheat (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III iv: I crown thy nab with a gage of ben bouse.
at bene bouse (n.) under bene, adj.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III i: My fine canary-bird, there’s a cake for thy worship.
at canary-bird, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Except you do provide me hum enough, / And lour to bouze with.
at bouse, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: When last in conference at the bouzing-ken, / The other day, we sate about our dead prince.
at bousing-ken, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: What, ha’ you / Bells for my squirrel? I ha’ giv’n Bun meat.
at bun, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush V i: fer.: Or surprising a boor’s ken, for grunting-cheats? / prig.: Or cackling-cheats? / hig.: Or Margery-Praters, Rogers, / And Tibs o’ th’ buttery.
at tib (of the buttery), n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush V i: fer.: Or surprising a boor’s ken, for grunting-cheats? / prig.: Or cackling-cheats? / hig.: Or Margery-Praters, Rogers, / And Tibs o’ th’ buttery.
at cackling-cheat, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush V ii: I’ll maund no more, nor cant.
at cant, v.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush V i: Or surprising a boor’s ken, for grunting-cheats?
at grunting-cheat, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III i: I grip’d him then speedily, and I whipt off his Cods.
at cods, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III iv: To maund on the pad, and strike all the cheats, / To mill from the Ruffmans, Commission and slates.
at commission, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III i: Bring out your cony-skins, fair maids, to me, / And hold’em fair that I may see.
at cony, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: A cove! fumbumbis!
at cove, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.
at crank, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III i: Bring forth your Cunny skins, fair maids, to me, / And hold them fair that I may see / Gray, Black, and blew, for your small skins / I’ll give you Glasses, Laces, Pins: And for your whole Cunny / I’ll give you ready money.
at cunny, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III i: Bring forth your Cunny skins, fair maids, to me, / And hold them fair that I may see / Gray, Black, and blew, for your small skins.
at cunny-skin (n.) under cunny, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Do you mark? to cut bene whids; / That is the second law.
at cut bene whids (v.) under cut, v.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: All your daintiest dells too / I will deflower, and take your dearest doxies.
at dell, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Higgen, your orator in this inter-regnum, / That whilom was your Dommerer.
at dommerer, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: All your daintiest dells too / I will deflower, and take your dearest doxies.
at doxy, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush V i: Tell us, / If it be milling of a lag of duds, / The fetching off a buck of clothes.
at lag of duds, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Thus we throw up our nab-cheats first, for joy, / And then our filches; last we clap our fambles.
at famble, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III i: Ere a man could fart twice, I had made him a hog.
at fart, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Thus we throw up our nab-cheats first, for joy, / And then our filches; last we clap our fambles.
at filch, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush II i: Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all That stand in fair election for the title Of king of beggars.
at frater, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III iv: I crown thy nab with a gage of ben bouse.
at gage, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush IV iv: Why, what a goosecap wouldst thou make me!
at goose-cap (n.) under goose, n.4
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III iv: Let the queer-cuffin / And harmanbecks trine, and trine to the ruffin.
at harman, n.
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