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Quip for an Upstart Courtier E: I inueigh not against law nor honest lawiers [...] but against extorting Ambodexters that wring the poore.at ambidexter, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier E: I inueigh not against law nor honest lawiers [...] but against extorting Ambodexters that wring the poore. Quip for an Upstart Courtier B: It was iust at that time when the Cuckoulds chorister began to bewray Aprill Gentlemen with his neuer changed notes.at April gentleman, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier G3: The pedlar [...] walketh the country with [...] his mort dell and his autem mort.at autem mort (n.) under autem, adj.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier B2: I saw the Batchelors buttons, whose vertue is to make wanton maidens weepe, when they haue worne it forty weekes under their aprons for a fauour.at bachelor’s buttons (n.) under bachelor, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier F3: You shall haue those curses which belongs vnto your craft, you shall be light footed to travel farre, light witted vpon every small occasion to give your masters the bagge.at give someone the bag (v.) under bag, n.1
Quip for an Upstart Courtier B: They themselves walking home by Beggar’s Bush for a penance.at beggar’s bush (n.) under beggar, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D: The presumptuous asse be drownd in the Mercers booke.at drowned (in the mercer’s book), adj.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier C3: He is (sir) to bee breefe a bowsie bawdy miser, good for none but himselfe and his trug .at bousy, adj.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D3: He is, sir, to be breefe, a bowsie bawdie miser, good for none but himselfe and his trugge.at bowsy, adj.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier B2: By his side, a skein [dagger] like a brewer’s boung-knife.at bung, n.1
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D: Now euery lowt must haue his sonne a Courtnoll.at court noll (n.) under court, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D: When their credit is utterly crackt, they practise some bad shifte.at cracked, adj.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier E3: I [...] haue played many madde pranckes, for which cause, you may apparently see I am made a curtall, for the Pillory.at curtal, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier C3: They tie the poore soule in such Darbies bandes [...] and dub him sir John bad lands.at darby, n.2
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D: I might see comming downe the hill a braue dapper Dicke, quaintly attired in veluet and sattin.at dick, n.1
Quip for an Upstart Courtier G3: The pedlar [...] walketh the Countrey with his docksey.at doxy, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D4: Queasie maister veluet breeches cannot haue a fart awrye, but he must haue his purgations, pils, and glisters.at fart, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier E: A fat knaue with a foggie face, wherein a cup of old sacke hath set a seale to marke the bowsie drunkard to die of the dropsie.at foggy, adj.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier E2: Let a poore man but be arrested into one of the counters [...] hee shall be almost at an angels charge, what with garnish, crossing and wiping out of the boke, turning the key.at garnish, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier F4: Let me whisper one thing in your eare, you will play the goodfellow too much if you be well greased in the fist.at grease someone in the fist (v.) under grease, v.1
Quip for an Upstart Courtier B2: But Hob and John of the countrey they stept in churlishly, in their high startvps.at hob, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier C2: He is the spoile of young Gentlemen a blood sucker of the poore, as thrifty as a horse leach.at horse leech (n.) under horse, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D3: Hee is readye to lend the loser money upon rings [...] or any other good pawne, but the poore gentleman paies so deere for the lavender it is layd up in.at lay (up) in lavender, v.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier in Harleian Misc. (1809) 244: To praise the Turnspit Iacke my Muse is mum, / Nor the entertainment of Iacke Drum / [...] / Nor Iacke of Douer that Grand Iury Iacke, / Nor Iacke Sawce (the worst knaue mongst the packe).at jack of dover (n.) under jack, n.1
Quip for an Upstart Courtier G2: The formost was a plaine country Sir John, or vickar.at Sir John, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier in Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. (1871) 28: Such young youths [...] fall then to privy lifts and cozenages.at lift, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier G: That reprobate is the vserers executioner to bring suche gentlemen to limbo, as he hath overthrowne with his base brocage.at limbo, n.
Quip for an Upstart Courtier D4: Neither doe I frequent whorehouses to catch the mar-boles.at marbles, n.1
Quip for an Upstart Courtier G3: The pedlar [...] walketh the Countrey with his docksey at the least, if he haue not two his mortes dels, and Autem mortes.at mort dell (n.) under mort, n.1
Quip for an Upstart Courtier H3: Both he and my gowned brother seemed [...] as if they had some sutes to Mounsieur Boots.at mounseer, n.
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