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Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green choose

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[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act V: Father wherefore do you hang an arse so?
at hang an arse under arse, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act III: Hold, let him alone you cross legg’d-hartichoak.
at artichoke, n.1
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act III: Now this old Asse believing I said true / Comes with my Conscience, bids me advise.
at ass, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act II: I’de hang this bacon-fac’d slave orethwart his shanks.
at bacon-faced (adj.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: I am no Bungler about a Wench.
at bungler, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act III: Look not on me, / Till you have found those that have Cony-catch’t you. [Ibid.] Act IV: Well on this condition you’ll teach me to cony, I am content to lye for you.
at conycatch, v.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act III: This damb’d perpetual Rogue Swash, has kept me here in little ease of the bare ground. [Ibid.] IV: Surely it is a damn’d Magicion.
at damned, adj.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: Cony-catcher? the Devill you are?
at devil, the, phr.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act II: What is the matter with you? so feather-ey’d ye cannot let us passe in the King’s high way?
at feather-headed, adj.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act I: Your nipper, your foyst, your rogue, your cheat, your pander, your any vile thing.
at foist, n.2
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act I: Ha, ha, ha, gill, gill, gill, I have been ready to burst. Son pray thee tell me how thou laid’st this plot?
at gill, n.1
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act V: Come ole fellow bring thy white Bears to the stake, and thy yellow gingle boys to the Bull-ring.
at gingleboy, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act III: Farewell Snip, pray let’s see ye all at the Gallows, till when I bequeath this halter amongst ye, in token of my love, and so adue.
at halter, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act III: Farewell Swash and be hang’d.
at hang, v.1
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act I: He wo’d be your prigger, your prancer, your high-lawyer.
at high lawyer, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: I do but stay here to talk 3 or 4 cold words in hugger-mugger with the Blind-beggars Daughter.
at in hugger-mugger (adv.) under hugger-mugger, n.1
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: The Blind-Beggar of Bednall-Green has the prettiest Mother to his Daughter as a man need to lay his leg over.
at lift a leg over (v.) under leg, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act II: I must keep company with none but a sort of Momes and Hoydens that know not chalk from cheese.
at mome, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act I: Your nipper, your foyst, your rogue, your cheat, your pander, your any vile thing.
at nipper, n.1
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: Strowd, y’are a Nit, a Slave, and a Pessant.
at nit, n.1
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act I: This Tom Tawney coat here gulls me, make me your cheat, your gull, your strowd, your Norfolk Dumpling.
at Norfolk dumpling (n.) under Norfolk, adj.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: can:Strowd, y’are a Nit, a Slave, and a Pessant. t. stro.: How a Fessant?
at pheasant, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: You shall likewise see the amorous conceits and Love songs betwixt Captain Pod of Py-corner, and Mrs. Rump of Ram-alley.
at pie, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: Gentlemen! as God mend me, a couple of arrant Cony-catchers as e’re pist. [Ibid.] V: I’ll give you leave to stick me up at the Court-gate for a Pissing-post, so will I.
at piss, v.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: Come then my mad Viragoes I have spent many a gray groat of honest swaggerers, and tear-Plackets in my daies that I never drunk for, and now I’ll turn swaggerer my self.
at tear one’s placket (v.) under placket, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act III: O pox choke him for a slave hither our Country Franklins flockmeale swarme, / and John and Joane come marching arme in arme.
at pox!, excl.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: You shall likewise see the amorous conceits and Love songs betwixt Captain Pod of Py-corner, and Mrs. Rump of Ram-alley.
at ram, v.1
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: You shall likewise see the amorous conceits and Love songs betwixt Captain Pod of Py-corner, and Mrs. Rump of Ram-alley.
at rump, n.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act I: Sblud the worst that any man can say of me is, that I am a tall Theef.
at ’sblood!, excl.
[UK] J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act II: I’ll have another bout with ye, or I’ll make your sconce and the post ring noon together.
at sconce, n.1
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