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The City Wit choose

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[UK] R. Brome City Wit III iv: Ha, ha, ha: I would laugh ifaith, if you could bob me off with such payment.
at bob, v.1
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV i: Oh twas a notable dull Flat-Cap.
at flat-cap, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV i: Ka me, Ka thee, an old kind of Courtship.
at claw me and I’ll claw you under claw, v.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit V i: Why Goodman Fool, you Coxcomb, you Ninnihammer, you Clotpold Countrey Gentleman.
at clodpole, adj.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV ii: Truly, truly, I am Conycatch’d.
at conycatch, v.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit V i: How does your Costard Sir?
at costard, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV i: Marry to bee made a Cuckqueane by such a Coxcombe.
at cuck, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV ii: Thou Cullion, could not thine own Cellar serve thee, but thou must be sneaking into Court Butteries?
at cullion, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit II ii: The young ones will learn to do’, to do’t, / And the Old forget not to do it.
at do it, v.1
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV i: He has an English face, a French tongue, a Spanish heart [...] and a Dutch buttock.
at Dutch, adj.2
[UK] R. Brome City Wit III i: Shee’s very farr gone I feare, how do you find her disease Sir?
at far gone, adj.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit V i: Why Goodman Fool, you Coxcomb, you Ninnihammer, you Clotpold Countrey Gentleman.
at goodman turd (n.) under good, adj.1
[UK] R. Brome The City Wit III i: I’ll be hang’d if this Doctor be not of her smock Counsell.
at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV i: What, relieve the base wants of prating Skipjacks to pay for your damnation?
at skip-jack, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit III ii: We hop’d he would have prov’d a crafty Merchant, and he prov’d an honest man, a Beggar.
at merchant, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit V i: Why Goodman Fool, you Coxcomb, you Ninnihammer, you Clotpold Countrey Gentleman.
at ninnyhammer, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV i: Some new project she has in her noddle.
at noddle, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV ii: Ods my precious —.
at ods precious! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit III i: O here comes your Pigg-wiggen.
at pig widgeon, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit IV i: Marry to [...] have her Jewells prig’d away, to bestow on a Court Mistress.
at prig, v.2
[UK] R. Brome City Wit V i: cra.: A wench as tender as a City Pullet. ruf.: But not so rotten.
at pullet, n.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit V i: cra.: A wench as tender as a City Pullet. ruf.: But not so rotten.
at rotten, adj.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit I i: What Scold hath scutch’d thy skonce.
at sconce, n.1
[UK] R. Brome City Wit III i: Sfoot, tis time to part you.
at ’sfoot!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome City Wit III ii: I have charg’d you not to shoot your bolt, before you understand your mark.
at shoot one’s bolt (v.) under shoot, v.
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