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Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay choose

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[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay D3: I am [...] the Belwether of this company, these are my lords, and I the prince of Wales.
at bell-wether, n.
[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay C4: I’ll be Prince of Wales ouer all the blacke pots in Oxford.
at black pot (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay C3: Gogs wounds! Warren, kill him.
at gog, n.
[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay H3: Haue you not good tipling houses there, may not a man haue a lustie fier there, a pot of good ale.
at tippling-house, n.
[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay D3: Salue doctor Burden, this lubberly lurden, ill-shapte, and ill-faced.
at lubberly, adj.
[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay H3: The old lecher hath gotten holy mutton to him, a Nunne my Lord.
at mutton, n.
[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay C3: A companie of scabbes, the proudest of you all drawe your weapon if he can.
at scab, n.1
[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay D2: Ile [...] wed you heere, Then go to bed and seale vp your desires.
at seal, v.
[UK] Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay H3: Haue you not good tipling houses there, may not a man haue a lustie fier there, a pot of good ale, a paire of cardes, a swinging peece of chalke, and a browne toast?
at swinging, adj.1
[UK] ‘Scalpers Among Us’ in Bacon mag. 🌐 Enter the neighborhood ticket scalper, occasionally seedy, fixer to the needy. Scalpers can be total bastards or guardian angels to anybody at any given moment.
at ticket-scalper (n.) under scalp, v.1
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