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The Trimming of Thomas Nash choose

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[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe D: Awaye with your confused bibble babble.
at -babble, sfx
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe C4: I pray let me christen you a newe [...] the very bull-headed of all the troope of pamphleteers.
at bullheaded, adj.
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe in Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. (1871) 20: He [...] went coney-catching about for victuals.
at cony-catching, n.
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe B4: I thinke that halfe a yeeres study did not bring it out of thy dunsticall hammer-headed scalpe.
at hammerheaded, adj.
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe E: I will stirre thee vp and make thee seething hot.
at hot, adj.
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe E: Ignatius-like thou shalt be carbonadoed.
at like, adv.
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe 24: Hold ope your eyes, with a pox to ye.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe D2: Thy wit, thy wit, Tom, hath roddes in pisse for thee.
at rod in piss (n.) under rod, n.
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe C3: Thou scabbed, scalde, lame, halting adiectiue as thou art.
at scald, adj.
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe E: Then thou callest them sinckanters, which is a proper Epithite vnto thy-selfe, for Sinckanter commeth of sincke and antrum a hole.
at sincanter, n.
[UK] G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe B: Come, sit downe, Ile trim you my selfe.
at trim, v.
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