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Greenes Tu Quoque choose

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[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xii: Bid the Kitchin-maide skowre the sincke, and make cleane her backe-side, for the wind lies just upon’t.
at backside, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene ix: spend.: What’s yours sir? scat.: Mine’s a Baker’s dozen; master Bubble tel your mony.
at baker’s dozen, n.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene x: You doe not take the course to winne my sister, But indirectly goe about the bush.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvi: Felts? By this light, mine is a good Beaver.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xiii: When thou art growne to bee An old Upholsterer unto Venerie, (A Bawd, I meane, to live by Fether-beds).
at feather-bed jig (n.) under feather-bed, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xiv: You thinke it does become you: fayth, it does not, A Blew Coat with a Badge, does better with you.
at bluecoat, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xviii: My father is fleeced of all; griefe will give him a box, yfaith, but ’tis no great matter, I shall inherit the sooner.
at box, n.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvi: Sonne Bubble, where did you two buy your Felts?
at bubble, n.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xv: Out of the Almes-basket, where Charitie appeares In likenesse of a peece of stinking Fish, Such as they beat Bawdes with when they are Carted.
at cart, v.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvii: Widow, hold your Clapdish, fasten your Tongue Unto your Roofe, and do not dare to call.
at clap-trap, n.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvii: Shall we without further wrangling clap it up, And goe to Bed together?
at clap it up (v.) under clap, v.2
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xix: Tis scarce honest dealing for any man to Conny-catch another mans wife.
at conycatch, v.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene x: You come And fiddle heere, and keepe a coile in verse.
at fiddle, v.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xiii: May the French Canniball eate into thy flesh.
at French measles (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene iv: spend: Dice or drincke, heere’s forty crownes: as long as that will last, any thing. rash: Why, there spoke a gingling Boy.
at gingleboy, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene ix: I was so farre gone, that desperation knocked at my elbow.
at gone, adj.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene ii: Pray thee honest friend, goe to the next Haberdashers, and bid him send me a new melancholy hat.
at melancholy hat, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xi: For the love of laughter, look yonder: / Another herring in the same pickle.
at herring, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvi: The tother Hobby-horse, I perceive is not forgotten.
at hobby horse, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xv: A prisoner to the Holl, take charge of him.
at hole, n.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xix: Hee’s the penner that belongs to that Inck-horne.
at inkwell (n.) under ink, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvi: Why but what Jigge is this?
at jig, n.2
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xiv: Kindnesse is tearmed Lightnesse in our sex.
at lightness (n.) under light, adj.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene ix: Uds foote, shall I be confin’d all the dayes of my life to walke under a pent-house?
at penthouse-nab, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene ix: scat.: Ninni-hammer.
at ninnyhammer, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvii: spend.: Set your hand to this [...] Heere’s pen and incke, you see I come provided. wid.: Give me the penne. spend.: Why, here’s some comfort.
at pen, n.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvi: Well, the time is come sweet Joyce, [...] For mee to tickle thy Tu quoque; to doe the act Of our forefathers.
at tu quoque, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene iv: ’Tis not your sawsege face, thicke clowted creame rampallion at home, that snuffles in the nose like a decayed Bagge-pipe.
at rampallian, n.
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xix: I doe feare that I shall turne stinckard, I doe smell such a matter: you are married then?
at stinker, n.1
[UK] J. Cook Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvi: Puh the Italian fashion? the tatterd-de-malian fashion hee meanes.
at tatterdemallion, n.
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