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[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Diii: The stately Lord [...] is noe come up to courte, And leaues the country for a common prey, To pilling, polling, brybing, and deceit .
at pill and poll, v.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Hiiii: When brewers put, no bagage in their beere [...] Where vintners mix, no water with their wine.
at baggage, n.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Biiii: The stately cowrts, Are no place, for such poore byrds as I.
at bird, n.1
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Biii: They clapt me fast, in cage of Myserie. [Ibid.] Fiii: In Woodstreat, Bredstreat, and in Pultery (Where such schoolmaisters keepe their counting house) To [...] keepe their byrds, ful close in caytiues cage.
at cage, n.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Eiiii: Make not the catchpol, rich by thine arrest.
at catchpole, n.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Bii: A man, as some do thinke I am, (Laugh not good Lord) I am in dede a dame, Or at least, a right Hermaphrodite.
at dame, n.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Fi: Comes naked neede? and chance to do amisse? He shal be sure, to drinke vpon the whippe.
at drink on the whip (v.) under drink, v.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Ei: Simple snakes, which go not halfe so gay, Can leaue him yet a furlong in the field.
at not half, phr.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Epistle dedication: Though the skorneful do mocke me for a time, yet in the ende I hope to giue them al a rybbe to roste for their paynes .
at rib roast, n.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Cii: The roysters brag, aboue their betters rome.
at roister, n.
[UK] G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Ci: That Souldiours sterue, or prech at Tiborne crosse .
at preach at Tyburn (cross) (v.) under Tyburn, n.
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