1643 A. Brome ‘To a Potting Priest upon a Quarrel’ Songs and Poems (1661) 194: That rebellions beer usurp’d your crown. And your Mechanick heels gaz’d on the stars.at mechanic, adj.
1661 A. Brome ‘The Prisoners’ Songs and Poems 83: Come a brimmer (my bullies) drink whole ones or nothing.at bully, n.1
1661 A. Brome ‘Upon the Miscarrier of Letters’ Songs and Poems 223: Had it been newes, or pamphlets, or the rude Inventions of the cock-brain’d multitude.at cock-brain (n.) under cock, n.3
1661 A. Brome ‘The Levellers Rant’ Songs and Poems 56: We shall have no cushion-cuffers to tell us of hell.at cushion-cuffer (n.) under cushion, n.
1661 A. Brome Songs and Other Poems in Wardroper (1969) 204: Isaac and’s wenches are busy a-digging / But all our delight is in japing and jigging.at jape, v.
1661 A. Brome ‘The Prodigal’ Songs and Poems 89: Then hang the Dull wit Of that white-liver’d cit.at white-livered, adj.
1661 A. Brome ‘The New Knight Errant’ Songs and Poems 133: But Fortune that whore, still attended this Brewer, And did all his atchievements reward; And blindly did fling, on this lubberly thing, More honour, and made him a Lord.at lubberly, adj.
1661 A. Brome ‘To a Gentleman that fell sick of the small Pox’ Songs and Poems 207: Then blush no more, but let your Mrs. know.at Mrs, n.
1661 A. Brome ‘The Answer’ Songs and Poems 165: Your next is money, which I promise, Full fifty pounds alas the summe is, That too shall quickly follow, if It can be rais’d from Strong or Tiffe.at tiff, n.1
1664 A. Brome song XLII Songs and Poems 124: The Roundheads and Caveys no more shall be nam’d But all joyn together to make up the ring.at cavy, n.