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The Elbow-Shakers! choose

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[UK] F.F.Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I iv: I will quit the Jack-a-dandy.
at jack (a) dandy, n.
[UK] F.F.Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I ii: He sha’nt marry Sally – blow me!
at blow!, excl.1
[UK] F.F. Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I ii: Sir – you’re looking bobbish.
at bobbish, adj.
[UK] F.F.Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I i: His tune whistling gaily, that made me dance light, / Give me Bill with his castor so lily white.
at castor, n.
[UK] F.F.Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I iv: Here’s to her who can drink as hard as a fish.
at drink like a fish (v.) under drink, v.
[UK] F.F.Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I iv: Nay, cheer up duckey, pray don’t cry so!
at ducky, n.
[UK] F.F. Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I i ii: Our luck may change! – there’s the respect / That give our Elbow Shaker so long a life.
at elbow-shaker (n.) under elbow, n.1
[UK] F.F. Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I i: A Stay indeed, well that’s no great go!
at go, n.1
[UK] F.F. Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I i: Yet scarce had I fond hope began to hug, / When you stept in, and show’d your ugly mug.
at mug, n.1
[UK] F.F. Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I i: As to get a little drop, / I’ve scarce a rag to pop.
at pop, v.2
[UK] F.F.Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I i: Come, have a rub; I’ve a trick or two to show.
at rub, n.1
[UK] F.F. Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I ii: Why, Bill, that’s the chap we saw last night; – d’ye think he’ll smoke us?
at smoke, v.1
[UK] F.F.Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I ii: Follow, follow for a Spree; / I’ll stand a mug of Mountain.
at spree, n.
[UK] F.F. Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I iv: My eyes, if Bill saw me he’d give me such a thumper!
at thumper, n.
[UK] F.F. Cooper Elbow-Shakers! I i: In the meantime my buck, tip them a song.
at tip, v.3
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