1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act V: Together with my lady’s, my fortune fell, and of her gentleman usher I became her apple squire, to hold the door and keep centinel at taverns.at apple squire (n.) under apple, n.1
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act V: Besides the whips of furies are not halfe so terrible as a blew coate.at bluecoat, n.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act IV: Oh let me kisse those payre of red twinn’d cherries.at cherries, n.3
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act III: [I] dresse Phesant, Partridge and Coney for Lords, but their Ladies many times make the sawce.at cony, n.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act V: I have coney-catcht many a poulterers wife, and she hath pluckt my feathers: what I got by the back I spent on the belly.at conycatch, v.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act V: I have coney-catcht many a poulterers wife, and she hath pluckt my feathers [...] But now short commons serve, licking my fingers and the halfe-cold drippingpan.at dripping pan, n.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act II: My name is Blood. Ayre was my father, and my mother a light-heel’d madame that kept a vaulting schoole at the signe of Virgo.at vaulting house, n.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act V: A desperate piece of neglected mortality, that have been a Lady of pleasure, and kept an open house.at lady of pleasure (n.) under lady, n.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act III: My method is to dresse Phesant, Partridge and Coney for Lords, but their Ladies many times make the sawce.at pheasant, n.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act III: I play the Gardner likewise, and attend her alwaies when shee goes to pluck a Rose.at pluck a rose (v.) under pluck, v.