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[UK] 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.
[UK] A. Brome ‘The Prisoners’ Songs and Poems 83: Come a brimmer (my bullies) drink whole ones or nothing.
at bully, n.1
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] A. Brome ‘The Prodigal’ Songs and Poems 89: Then hang the Dull wit Of that white-liver’d cit.
at white-livered, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
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