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[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden III i: I had once a hope to have bought this Mannor of Marshland [...] to ha’ made you a Bankeside Lady.
at Bankside lady, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II v: I tell thee thou old booby thou.
at booby, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II ii: It [Asparagus] is so provocative, and so quicke in the hot operation, that none dare eate it, but those that carry their coolers with ’em.
at cooler, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden IV iv: O damn’d old counterfeit.
at damned, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden III iv: Come here’s a health to the Hans in Kelder, and the mother of the boy, if it prove so.
at Hans-en-Kelder, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden IV iv: Looke that you congy in the new French Bum-trick.
at French, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II ii: As true as I live he fribles with mee sir.
at fribble, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II ii: Why doe we not go then? or what stay we for, can you tell fumbler?
at fumbler, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II ii: You must thither, to the Garden of delight, where you must have it drest and eaten in the due kind; and there it is so provocative, and so quicke in the hot operation.
at garden of delight (n.) under garden, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II ii: Great Ladies, Gills, and Sluts too.
at jill, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II ii: The Knight of the burning pestle.
at ...the pestle under knight of the..., n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden I i: They were the common talke of the towne for a paire of wranglers; still at strife for one trifle or other: they were at law logger-heads together.
at get/go/come to loggerheads (v.) under loggerhead, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II iii: Sdaggers if ever man that had but a mind to be a Gentleman was so noddy poopt.
at noddy, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden IV iv: [He] has never top’d her in the way we treat of, / Before he wed her: for my sonne shall not ride / In his old boots upon his wedding night.
at ride, v.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden IV iv: [He] Has never top’d her in the way we treat of, / Before he wed her: for my sonne shall not ride / In his old boots upon his wedding night.
at ride in another man’s boots (v.) under ride, v.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden II iii: Sdaggers if ever man that had but a mind to be a Gentleman was so noddy poopt.
at ’s, abbr.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden IV vii: You have beene a Striker in your dayes: And may be agen.
at striker, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden V xi: No, you adopted her / In your owne name, and made a Striker of her, / No more a Monylacks.
at striker, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden V xiii: The Stockes were fitter for him: the most corrupted fellow about the Suburbs.
at suburb, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden I i: Some Suburbe Justice, that sits o’ the skirts o’ the City and lives by’t.
at suburb, n.
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden IV iv: [He] Has never top’d her in the way we treat of, / Before he wed her.
at top, v.1
[UK] R. Brome Sparagus Garden V ii: Right learned in the Law, and my sons friend Mr. Trampler, Mr. Ambodexter Trampler, you are a most notorious knave, and you shall heare on’t o’both sides, as you take fees.
at trampler, n.
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