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R. Corbett ‘The Mad Zealot’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 235: I keep him aloof, / With armour of proof, / Though here I have never a rag on.at rag, n.1
R. Corbett ‘The Mad Zealot’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 235: I keep him aloof, / With armour of proof, / Though here I have never a rag on. ‘The Night Encounter’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 251: He went to it again, and hit in the Vein / Where all her whole grief did lye.at hit (in) the vein (v.) under hit, v.
‘Loves Lunatick’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 180: Tom Bedlam was a sage to me, / I speak in sober-sadness, / For more strange Visions did I see / Than Tom in all his madness.at Tom of Bedlam, n.
‘The Fashions’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 26: The Italian in his High Chippin, / Scotch Lass, and comely Fro too.at froe, n.1
in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 394: For Roundheads Old Nick stand up now.at Old Nick, n.
‘The Red-coats Triumph’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 264: Thus on our Equals and Superiours we trample, / And Jockie our stirrop shall hold.at Jock, n.
‘The Rebellion’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 167: Take Pryn and his club, or Smec and his tub, / Or any Sect, old or new.at tub, n.1
‘A cup of old Stingo’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 141: ’Twill make a Parson not to flinch, / Though he seem wondrous holy, / But for to kiss a pretty Wench, / And think it is no follie; / ’Twill make him learn to decline / The Verb that’s called Mingo, / ’Twill make his Nose like Copper shine, / If his head be lin’d with stingo.at mingo, v.1
‘A Cup of old Stingo’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 141: Being barrell’d up, they call it a cup / Of dainty good old Stingo.at stingo, n.1
‘The Colchester Quaker’s Complaint’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 58: Now when in such a Saddle / A Saint will needs be riding, / Though I dare not say, / ’Tis a falling away, / May there not be some back-sliding.at backsliding (n.) under back, adj.2
‘Oliver routing the Rump’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 63: An Act he did not expect from a King, / Much less from a dry-bone as he.at dry-bone(s) (n.) under dry, adj.1
‘The Colchester Quaker’s Complaint’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 59: Help Woodcock, Fox and Naylor; / For Brother Green’s a stallion. / Now alas what hope / Of converting the Pope, / When a Quaker turns Italian.at Italian, adj.
‘The Colchester Quaker’s Complaint’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 57: A scandall ’twill be counted, / When ’tis talk’t with disdain, / Amongst the profane, / How Brother Green was mounted.at mount, v.1
‘Full Forty Times Over’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 61: There’s a breach ready made, which still open hath been, With thousands of thoughts to betray it within, If you once but approach you are sure to get in.at breach, n.
‘A Song’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 301: Her neather Lip moyst, plump, and fair, / Millions of kisses crown’d.at nether lips (n.) under nether, adj.
‘The Brewers Praise’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 223: Poor Jockie and his basket hilt / Was beaten.at Jock, n.
‘Power of the Sword’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 126: The sword prevails so highly in Wales too, / Shinkin ap Powel cries, and swears Cuts-plutter-nails.at Shinkin-ap-Morgan, n.
‘The Power of the Sword’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 126: The sword prevails so highly in Wales too, / Shinkin ap Powel cries, and swears Cuts-plutter-nails.at cuts, n.1
‘On Captain Hick’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 289: Now all you brave Blades leave your Shops & your trades.at blade, n.
in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 93: Although he could neither write nor read, yet our General Lashby cross’d the Tweed, With his gay gang of blue-caps all.at blue cap (n.) under blue, adj.1
Cromwell’s Conspiracy in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) III v: When with upsie freeze I line my head / my Hostis Sellar is my bed.at upsee, adj.
‘The Tinker of Turvey’ in Merry Drollery 17: He walks about the Country, / With Pike-staff, and with Budget, / Drunk as a Rat, you’d hardly wot / That drinking so he could trudge it.at drunk as a rat, adj.
Merry Drollery in Choyce Drollery (1876) 242: From the stinking breath of an old Aunt / Libera nos Domine.at aunt, n.
‘Ladies Delight’ in Merry Drollery 89: Here's bawbles too to play withall, / And some to stand in stead; / This place doth afford both for your brow, / And stallions for your head.at bauble, n.
‘Old England turned New’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 267: We have new fashion’d beards, and new fashion’d locks, / And new fashion’d hats for your new pated blocks.at block, n.1
in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 242: From a Bulker in the dark [...] Libera nos Domine.at bulker, n.1
‘Contentment’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 162: Let danger come, have at her Bum, Give me the Girle that stands to’t.at bum, n.1
‘New-years Gift’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 81: If pretty Bun the stalk devour, ’Twil up again in half an hour; When once the Bun it doth espy ’Twill mop most prettily.at bun, n.1
‘The Cavalier’s Complaint’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 53: My Coyn is spent, my time is lost.at coin, n.
‘The Character of a Mistris’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 61: My Mistris is a Conny fine, / She’s of the softest skin, / And if you please to open her, / The best part lies within, / And in her Conny-burrow may / Two Tumblers and a Ferret play.at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
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