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May-Day V i: I played the varlet and took up her coat, and meaning to lay my five finger upon her ace of hearts, up starts quite a contrary card.at ace of hearts (n.) under ace, n.
May-Day V i: I played the varlet and took up her coat, and meaning to lay my five finger upon her ace of hearts, up starts quite a contrary card. May-Day II iii: quint.: ’Sfoot, we have no wine here methinks, where’s this aperner? drawer: Here, sir.at aproner (n.) under apron, n.
May-Day III i: I wish all such old sheep-biters might always dip their fingers in such sauce to their mutton.at sheep-biter (n.) under bite, v.
May-Day V ii: For my game stood, me thought, upon my last two tricks, when I made sure of the set, and yet lost it, having the varlet and the five finger to make two tricks.at five fingers, n.
May-Day III iii: Oh, the supple hams of a lover!at ham, n.1
May-Day III i: Quintiliano is now carousing in the Emperor’s Head, while his own head buds horns to carouse.at grow horns (v.) under horn, n.1
May-Day IV ii: This is a hard case; no room serve your turn but my wife’s coal-house, and her other house of office annexed to it, a privy place for herself.at house of office (n.) under house, n.1
May-Day III i: He’s mine uncle and I love him well, and I know the old lick-spiggot will be nibbling a little when he can come to’t; but I must needs say he will do no hurt. He’s as gentle as an adder that has his teeth taken.at lick-spigot (n.) under lick, v.2
May-Day II i: Any other man, she says, might better adventure with the least thing changed about ’em than you with all, as if you were the only noted mutton-monger in all the city.at mutton-monger, n.1
May-Day IV:i: To trie whether this chopping knife or their pestels were the better weapons.at pestle, n.
May-Day I ii: If I do not bring her to thee, or, at the least, some special favour from her, as a feather from her fan, [...] to wear in thy hat, and so forth, then never trust my skill in poultry whilst thou liv’st again.at poultry, n.
May-Day II v: Health? ’Sfoot, how mean you that? D’ye think I came lately out o’ th’ powdering tub?at powdering tub, n.
May-Day II i: If I thought ’twould ever come to that, I’d hire some shag-rag or other for half a cheqeen to cut’s throat.at shagrag, n.
May-Day II i: Though y’are sure of this money again at my hands, yet take heed how this same Lodovico get it from you, he’s a great sharker.at shark, n.
May-Day IV ii: I would but have one whiff at one of these same pewter-buttoned shoulder-clappers to try whether this chopping knife or their pestles were the better weapons.at shoulder-clapper (n.) under shoulder, n.
May-Day III ii: I’faith, we shall trim him betwixt us.at trim, v.
May-Day IV iv: Some honest man’s wife of the parish, that steals abroad for a trimming, while he sits secure at home, little knowing, God knows, what hangs over his head.at trim, v.
May Day n.p.: I picked up the picture she had just sent me of her and Rodney, each holding one end of a ginormous salmon.at ginormous, adj.
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