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[UK] 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
[UK] T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act IV: Guard your selfe better, or I shall bang your coate.
at bang, v.1
[UK] T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act V: Besides the whips of furies are not halfe so terrible as a blew coate.
at bluecoat, n.
[UK] T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act IV: Oh let me kisse those payre of red twinn’d cherries.
at cherries, n.3
[UK] T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act III: [I] dresse Phesant, Partridge and Coney for Lords, but their Ladies many times make the sawce.
at cony, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act IV: Blood’s a skip-jack, and I will make him caper.
at skip-jack, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
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