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Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets choose

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[UK] R. Hayman ‘Quidlibets’ in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 366: For often with Duke Humfray thou dost dine, / And often with Sir Thomas Gresham sup.
at dine with Duke Humphrey (v.) under dine, v.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 71: Then into England straight he came / As fast as he was able, / Where he made many a Carpet Knight, / Though none of the Round Table.
at carpet knight, n.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 70: He was not much more than a span, / All in his clouts swadling.
at clout, n.1
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 45: The fair maid spread her legs abroad, / The young man fell between, / Such tying of a Garter I think was never seen.
at tie a garter (v.) under garter, n.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 34: And why not say a word or two, / Or she that’s just? witnesse all who / Have ever been at thy ho-go.
at hogo, n.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 33: [title] Upon a House of Office over a River, set on fire by a coale of tobacco.
at house of office (n.) under house, n.1
[UK] ‘On a Tinker’ in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 52: All maids desire him to stop up their holes / Prinkum Prankum is a fine dance, strong Ale is good in winter.
at prinkum-prankum, n.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 87: The Shark I do scorn, that’s only well born / [...] / But feeds on his friends like a Louse.
at shark, n.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 34: Whose genius if I hit aright, / Might be conceiv’d Hermaphrodite, / To both sex common when they sh[ite].
at shit, v.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 59: U’ds nigs dost think that paper will / Keep warme my back and belly fill?
at ’sniggers!, excl.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 71: He that thrumms a wench upon a brass pot, / The child may prove a Tinker.
at thrum, v.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 57: Uds bodykins! Chill work no more.
at ud, n.
[UK] in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 51: Sweet-heart thou hast a water-mill, And these [i.e. the thighs] are the mill-posts.
at watermill (n.) under water, n.1
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 113: Yet I care not a pin, For I see no such sin.
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 156: A Figg for Melancholly.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 113: The more to procure me, he then did adjure me / If the Ale I drank last were nappy and stale.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] ‘A Puritan’ in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 196: He [i.e. a puritan] swore by yea and nay / He would have no denial.
at yea and nay (man), n.
[UK] Merry Drollery in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 242: From the stinking breath of an old Aunt / Libera nos Domine.
at aunt, n.
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 133: And her resolution she had set down / That she’l have a Blew Cap, if ever she have any.
at blue cap (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 326: Come drink, we cannot want Chink, / Observe how my pockets do gingle.
at chink, n.1
[UK] Merry Drollery in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 242: From gold finders and night-weddings [...] Libera nos Domine.
at gold-finder (n.) under gold, n.
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 149: ’Tis not lowzy Beer, boyes, / But wine, that makes a Poet.
at lousy, adj.
[UK] Merry Drollery in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 196: He laid her on the ground, / His Spirits fell a ferking, / Her Zeal was in a sound, / He edified her Merkin.
at merkin, n.
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 114: The Merry-go-down without pull or hale, / Perfuming the throat, when the stomack ’afloat.
at merry-go-down (n.) under merry, adj.
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 118: It will clear his pipes, and moisten his lights, / If he drink alternatim a pot of good ale.
at clear one’s pipes (v.) under pipes, n.1
[UK] ‘Maid a Bathing’ in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1875) 230: Her legs she opened wide, My eyes I let down steal, Untill that I espy’d Dame natures privy Seal.
at seal, n.1
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 119: Tom tell-troth lies hid in a pot of good ale.
at tom tell-troth (n.) under tom, n.1
[UK] Antidote Against Melancholy in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 153: But to part with my mon[e]y I do not intend / Then a t[ur]d in thy teeth, and an old house end.
at turd in your teeth! (excl.) under turd, n.
[UK] ‘Westminster Drollery’ in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 192: O be drunk agen Quaker, / Take thy Canniken and shake her.
at canniken, n.2
[UK] ‘Westminster Drollery’ in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 189: Once the Clown at his entry / Kist his golls to the Gentry.
at goll, n.1
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