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Kind-Harts Dreame choose

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[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame C2: While they are in the ruffe of ribaudrie [...] the olde ale-knight their dad breakes out into admiration, and sends out stragling customers to admire his roaring sonnes.
at ale-knight (n.) under ale, n.
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame C4: He vtterly undid two milch maydens that had set up a shoppe of Ale-drapery. [Ibid.] E3: I get mee a wife, with her a little money: when we are married, seeke a house we must; no other occupation haue I but to be an Ale-draper.
at ale-draper (n.) under ale, n.
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame G2: This Shifter forsooth carried no lesse countenance than a Gentlemans abilitie, with his two men in bluecoates.
at bluecoat, n.
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame F3: Like a Subsister in a gown of rugge [...] singing the Counter-tenor by the Cage in Southwarke.
at cage, n.
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame E3: They open our crosse-biting, our conny-catching [...] our snares, our subtilties: for no sooner haue we a tricke of deceipt, but they make it common, singing Jigs, and making ieasts of vs.
at cony-catching, n.
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame F4: The whole towne talks of the cunning man, that indeed had onely connycatcht his Host.
at conycatch, v.
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame F3: They can bypasse, compasse, and bring vnder one another as cunningly and commonly, as euer poore Cuckoe coulde command his Jacke in a Boxe.
at cuckoo, n.1
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame G2: This Shifter forsooth carried no lesse countenance than a Gentlemans abilitie, with his two men in bluecoates.
at shifter, n.1
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame F3: Now a Jugling tricke to pay the shot.
at pay one’s shot (v.) under shot, n.1
[UK] H. Chettle Kind-Harts Dreame H1: About Hampshire there wandered a walking Mort, that went about the Countrey [...] and would sing sometime to serue the turne.
at walking mort (n.) under walking, adj.
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