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Merry Drollery Compleat: Joviall Poems, Merry Songs choose

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[UK] R. Corbett ‘The Mad Zealot’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] ‘The Night Encounter’ in Ebsworth 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.
[UK] H. Crouch ‘Loves Lunatick’ in Ebsworth 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.
[UK] T. Heywood ‘The Fashions’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 26: The Italian in his High Chippin, / Scotch Lass, and comely Fro too.
at froe, n.1
[UK] in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 394: For Roundheads Old Nick stand up now.
at Old Nick, n.
[UK] A. Brome ‘The Red-coats Triumph’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 264: Thus on our Equals and Superiours we trample, / And Jockie our stirrop shall hold.
at Jock, n.
[UK] ‘The Rebellion’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] ‘A cup of old Stingo’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] ‘A Cup of old Stingo’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 141: Being barrell’d up, they call it a cup / Of dainty good old Stingo.
at stingo, n.1
[UK] ‘The Colchester Quaker’s Complaint’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] ‘Oliver routing the Rump’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] ‘The Colchester Quaker’s Complaint’ in Ebsworth 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.
[UK] ‘The Colchester Quaker’s Complaint’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] ‘Full Forty Times Over’ in Ebsworth 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.
[UK] ‘A Song’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 301: Her neather Lip moyst, plump, and fair, / Millions of kisses crown’d.
at nether lips (n.) under nether, adj.
[UK] ‘The Brewers Praise’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 223: Poor Jockie and his basket hilt / Was beaten.
at Jock, n.
[UK] ‘Power of the Sword’ in Ebsworth 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.
[UK] ‘The Power of the Sword’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] E. Edwards ‘On Captain Hick’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 289: Now all you brave Blades leave your Shops & your trades.
at blade, n.
[UK] in Ebsworth 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
[UK] Cromwell’s Conspiracy in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) III v: When with upsie freeze I line my head / my Hostis Sellar is my bed.
at upsee, adj.
[UK] Merry Drollery in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 242: From the stinking breath of an old Aunt / Libera nos Domine.
at aunt, n.
[UK] ‘Old England turned New’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 242: From a Bulker in the dark [...] Libera nos Domine.
at bulker, n.1
[UK] ‘Contentment’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 162: Let danger come, have at her Bum, Give me the Girle that stands to’t.
at bum, n.1
[UK] ‘New-years Gift’ in Ebsworth 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
[UK] ‘The Cavalier’s Complaint’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 53: My Coyn is spent, my time is lost.
at coin, n.
[UK] ‘The Character of a Mistris’ in Ebsworth 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.
[UK] ‘Jovial Lover’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 10: I courted a riddle, she fancied a fiddle, The tune does run still in my brain.
at fiddle, v.1
[UK] ‘The Character of a Mistris’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 61: My Mistris is a Virginal, / And little cost will string her: / She’s often rear’d against the wall / For every man to finger.
at finger, v.
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