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[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Then all, with Bag and Baggage, bing awast.
at bing a waste, v.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: I will rather hazard my being one of the Devil’s Ape-leaders, than to marry while he is melancholly.
at ape-leader, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: The Autum-Mort finds better sport / In bowsing than in nigling.
at autem mort (n.) under autem, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew Act II: She’l have the Bantling at her back to-morrow That was to-day in her belly.
at bantling, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: This is Bien bowse, this is Bien bowse, / Too little is my Skew.
at bene bouse (n.) under bene, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: For all this bene Cribbing and Peck let us then, / Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken.
at bene, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew I i: Enter Randal and three or four servants with a great Kettle, and black-Jacks.
at black jack, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Here’s Grunter and Bleater, with Tib-of-the-Buttry, / And Margery Prater, all dress’d without sluttry.
at bleater, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Here, safe in our Skipper, let’s cly off our Peck, / And bowse in defiance o’ the Harman-Beck.
at bouse, v.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: This Bowse is better than Rum-bowse, / It sets the Gan a-gigling.
at bouse, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II ii: The autem mort find better sport / In bowsing than in niggling.
at bousing, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II ii: Sir, I can lay my function by / And talk as wild and wantonly / As Tom or Tib, or Jack, or Jill, / When they at bowsing ken do swill.
at bousing-ken, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew IV ii: To the blinde Virgin of fourscore, / And the lame Batchelor, of more, [...] How Venus caus’d their Sport to be / Prepar’d with butter’d Egs.
at have buttered eggs in one’s breeches (v.) under breeches, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew III i: I am sorely surbated with hoofing already tho’, and so crupper-crampt with out hard lodging, and so bumfidled with the straw.
at bum fiddle, v.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Here’s Grunter and Bleater, with Tib-of-the-Buttry, / And Margery Prater, all dress’d without sluttry.
at tib (of the buttery), n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: I understand their canting.
at canting, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Here’s Ruffpeck and Casson, and all of the best, / And Scraps of the Dainties of Gentry Cofe’s Feast.
at cassan, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew V i: Justice Clack still! He must talk all. His Clack must onely go.
at clack, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: See, in their rags, then, dauncing for your sports, / Our Clapper Dugeons and their walking Morts.
at clapperdudgeon, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew Act III: Unlesse you, Mistris, will affirm that you are with Child by the Gentleman; or that you have, at least, cleft or slept together (as he calls it) he will not marry you.
at cleave, v.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Here, safe in our Skipper, let’s cly off our Peck, / And bowse in defiance o’ the Harman-Beck.
at cly, v.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: For all this bene Cribbing and Peck let us then, / Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken.
at cofe, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Make a retreat into the Skipper; / And couch a Hogs-head, till the dark man’s.
at couch a hogshead (v.) under couch, v.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: For all this bene Cribbing and Peck let us then, / Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken.
at cove of the ken (n.) under cove, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Here’s Pannam and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.
at crib, n.2
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: For all this bene Cribbing and Peck let us then, / Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken.
at cribbing, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew III i: I am sorely surbated with hoofing already tho’, and so crupper-crampt with out hard lodging.
at crupper, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Make a retreat into the Skipper; / And couch a Hogs-head, till the dark man’s past.
at darkmans, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Sir, if you are [...] Dispos’d to Doxie, or a Dell, / That never yet with Man did Mell.
at dell, n.
[UK] R. Brome Jovial Crew Act II: The Bratling’s born; the Doxey’s in the Strummel, Laid by an Autum Mort of their own Crew, That served for Mid-wife.
at doxy, n.
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