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Westminster Drolleries: A Choice Collection of Songs and Poems choose

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[UK] ‘De Vino & Venere’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 71: Blind Love will blab what he in secret did.
at blab, v.
[UK] ‘The Good Fellows Song’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 108: As we went wandring all the night, The Brewers Dog our brains did bite.
at brewer’s horse, n.
[UK] ‘A Furious Scold’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 39: I dropt it in and nointed her face, Which brought her into a most Devilish case.
at case, n.1
[UK] ‘Last Song at the Kings House’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 5: Give me a mate That nothing will ask or tell us: She stands on no terms, or chaffers by way of Indenture.
at charver, v.
[UK] ‘A Furious Scold’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 38: She flew in my face, and call’d me fool, And comb’d my head with a three-legg’d stool.
at comb someone’s hair (v.) under comb, v.
[UK] ‘On a Precise Taylor’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 85: If the Stuff allow’d fell out to large, And that to filch his fingers were inclin’d.
at filch, v.1
[UK] ‘The Kind Husband’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 46: Nay, I’ll make you wait, you Flaps.
at flap, n.1
[UK] ‘The Wooing Rogue’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 17: We then shall want both Shirts and Smocks, To shift each others mangy hide, That is with Itch so pockifi’d.
at hide, n.
[UK] ‘A Furious Scold’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 38: Then to the Cupboard Pilgarlick must hie, To seek for some Crusts that have long lain dry.
at pilgarlic, n.
[UK] ‘The Careless Swain’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 81: I have plow’d in her ground, who will may take her.
at plough, v.
[UK] ‘The Wooing Rogue’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 17: We then shall want both Shirts and Smocks, To shift each others mangy hide, That is with Itch so pockifi’d.
at pocky, adj.
[UK] ‘A Furious Scold’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 37: She’l begin to scold and to brawl, And to call me Puppy and Cuckold.
at puppy, n.
[UK] ‘A Song at the Kings House’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 47: I have spent all my days In ranging the Park, th’ Exchange, & the Plays, yet ne’r in my Ramble till now did I [...] meet with the man I could love.
at range, v.
[UK] ‘Dialogue Concerning Hair’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 78: Ask me no more why Roarers wear Their hair extant below their ear.
at roarer, n.
[UK] ‘A Song’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 80: No, no, I’le never farm your Bed, Nor your Smock-Tenant be.
at smock merchant (n.) under smock, n.1
[UK] ‘A Song’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 7: The pleasant shades are for her that trades: Let’s truck and go together.
at trade, v.
[UK] ‘A Furious Scold’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 37: Yet she with her Cronies must trole it about.
at troll, v.
[UK] ‘A Furious Scold’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 37: Was ever a man so vex’d with a Trull.
at trull, n.
[UK] ‘On a Fart’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) ii 129: [as cit. 1654].
at not care a fart, v.
[UK] ‘The Bathing Girles’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) II 103: Then each at other did make a pass at kissing then, And round it went to every one level coile.
at play (at) level-coil (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] ‘In Praise of the Black-Jack’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) ii 94: I wish that his heires may never want Sack, That first devis’d the bonny black Jack.
at black jack, n.1
[UK] ‘The Bathing Girles’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) II 101: They [...] took away their Smocks, and both their Wallets too, Which brought their good Bubb, and left them in pittiful case.
at bub, n.1
[UK] ‘The Petticoate wagge’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) ii 14: Many a chinke Is unstopt, that were better clos’d.
at chink, n.2
[UK] ‘The Petticoat wagge, The Answer’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) ii 14: Some say the world is full of pelfe; But I think There’s no Chinke.
at chink, n.1
[UK] ‘A Song’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) ii 87: A Lass was deploring her haplesse estate [...] She sigh’d and she sobb’d, and I found it was all, For a little of that which Harry gave Doll.
at what Harry gave Doll, n.
[UK] ‘On a Fart’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) II 127: I sing the praises of a Fart, That I may doo’t by terms of Art.
at fart, n.
[UK] ‘On a Farts’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) ii 128: The Soldier makes his foes to run, With but the farting of a Gun, That’s if he make the Bullets whistle, Else ’tis no better than a fizle.
at fizzle, n.1
[UK] ‘On a Farts’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) II 128: Musick is but a Fart that’s sent, From the guts of an Instrument.
at gut, n.
[UK] ‘The Bathing Girles’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) II 103: Every Lass her man did pray, That what had past, no more of that but Mum.
at mum, n.1
[UK] ‘The Petticoat Wagge, The Answer’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) II 14: Some say the world is full of pelfe; But I think There’s no Chinke.
at pelf, n.
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