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George-A-Greene choose

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[UK] Greene George-A-Greene C2: [He] cast vp both his heeles, and let such a monstrous great fart, that was as much as in his language to say, A fart for the pound, and a fart for George a Greene.
at fart...!, a, excl.
[UK] Greene George-A-Greene C3: kend.: We are gentlemen [...] how art thou a gentleman? [...] ienkin: Marie my master giue for his armes, The picture of Aprill in a green ierkin, With a rooke on one fist, and an horne on the other.
at April gentleman, n.
[UK] Greene George-A-Greene E4: You whooreson cowardly scabbe, It is but the part of a clapperdudgeon To strike a man in the streete.
at clapperdudgeon, n.
[UK] Greene George-A-Greene F3: Come George, we wil crush a pot before we part.
at crush a pot (of ale) (v.) under crush, v.2
[UK] Greene George-A-Greene C1: First I saluted her with a green gowne, And after fell as hard a wooing As if the Priest had bin at our backs, to haue married vs.
at green gown, n.
[UK] Greene George-A-Greene D1: grime: Are you not some craftie queane, That comes from George a Greene, that rascall, With some letters to my daughter? [...] wily: Alas, sir, it is Hebrue vunto me].
at Hebrew, n.
[UK] Greene George-A-Greene D4: Here sit thou, George, wearing a willow wreath, As one despairing of thy beautious loue.
at wear (the) willow (v.) under wear, v.1
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