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[UK] Wife Lapped in Morrelles Skin in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry IV line 717: For I will trim thee in thy geare, Or else I would I were cald a Sow.
at gear, n.
[UK] Wife lapped in Morrelles Skin in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry IV line 899: Fyrst I will make thee sweate, good Jone.
at joan, n.
[UK] Wife Lapped in Morrelles Skin in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry IV line 547: I could not lye still, nor rest take me: Sometimes on my syde and sometimes on my backe He rolde and layd me.
at lay, v.1
[UK] Wife Lapped in Morrelles Skin in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry IV line 547: I could not lye still, nor rest take me: Sometimes on my syde and sometimes on my backe He rolde [sic] and layd me.
at ride, v.
[UK] Wife lapped in Morrelles Skin in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry IV line 843: If thou doe not serue me, and that anon, I shall shew mine anger I sweare by God, and by saynt John, Thy bones will I swaddle, so have I blisse.
at swaddle, v.
[UK] Wife Lapped in Morrelles Skin in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry IV line 717: For I will trim thee in thy geare, Or else I would I were cald a Sow.
at trim, v.
[UK] Wife Lapped in Morrelles Skin in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry IV line 932: Precious horeson, what doest thou thinke / I set not by thee a stinking t---.
at turd, n.
[UK] Doctour Doubble Ale in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry III 306: He careth not a pyn, How much ther be wythin, So he the pot may wyn .
at not care a pin, v.
[UK] S. Gosson Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Gentlewomen in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry (1866) IV 259: That you should coutch your meat in dish, And others feel it is no fish.
at meat, n.
[UK] John Bon and Mast Person line 162 in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry IV 16: Ha! Browne Done.
at do brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
[UK] King and poore Notherne Man in Hazlitt Early Popular Poetry 307: They with a foxe tale him soundly did pay.
at pay, v.
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