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Laugh and Be Fat, or the merry jester choose

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[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 117: I do not give a Fart for your Punch without Nantz.
at not care a fart, v.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 128: I shall not care one Jot / For all the kind of Allurements you have got, / Beneath that modest Veil the Petticoat.
at not care a jot, v.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 28: Adsheart, says his Majesty’s Representative.
at adsheart! (excl.) under ads, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 71: Adsheartliwounds, cries Roger, none of mine, you wicked Baggage you whose is she then?
at ad’s (heart’s) wounds! (excl.) under ads, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 13: The Merchant, not long since took of me a very pleasant little Tenement, which he was to occupy without any Let, Hindrance, or Molestation.
at apartment (to let), n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 138: This Son of Mars, / Ne’r hung an Arse, / Or turn’d his Tail.
at hang an arse under arse, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 7: He was forc’d [...] to return home Puffing and Blowing, having nothing left but Batchelor’s Fare, viz. Bread and Cheese, and Kisses for his Sunday’s Dinner.
at bachelor’s fare (n.) under bachelor, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 27: The talkative Congregation might be undeceiv’d, and return home to their warm Beds, and there with their Husbands, fall to the old Trade of Basket-making.
at basket-making (n.) under basket, n.1
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 114: Farewell damn’d Stygian Juice, that doth bewitch / From the Court-Bawd, down to the Common-Bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 142: On a Wool-Comber, who was hang’d for Sheep-Stealing. Beneath this Gallows lies Tom Kemp, / Who’d liv’d by Wool, and dy’d by Hemp; / The Fleece would not suffice the Glutton, / But with it he must steal the Mutton; / Had he but work’d, and liv’d uprighter, / He’d ne’er been hang’d for a Sheep-biter.
at sheep-biter (n.) under bite, v.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 7: He came to a pretty neat Box which stood by the Highway-Side.
at box, n.1
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 25: Knowing that his Bundle of Rue would be highly provoked at his Transgression, he bethought himself of a Project that might cease her Clamours.
at bundle, n.1
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 27: He had more Wit in his Anger, than to revenge himself of an ill Tongue, by burning his Peace-maker. [Ibid.] 89: No sooner had he found that she had burnt his Pope, but he presently concluded [...] that instead of a Maiden-head, she had given him for his Five Guineas, a confounded Clap.
at burn, v.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 79: The Wife consented and the Business being done with Jerk, he gave her Directions how she should manage the Matter.
at business, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 1: Leaving his pretty House-keeper to prepare the Cacklers.
at cackler, n.2
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 52: The ravenous CatchPoles, (those Blood-Hounds, or Jack-Calls, who hunt down the Prey for that tyrannick Beast, a Usurer).
at catchpole, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 21: Then thou may’st e’en dress thy self, says the old Chap.
at chap, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 155: And to Ben’s, there’s a chirrupping Cup; / Let’s comfort our Hearts, ev’ry Man his two Quarts.
at chirruper, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 106: Dull Cit, and thick-skull’d Aldermen arise.
at cit, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 19: As he was thus searching, pretendly for the Creepers, up he starts.
at creeper, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 105: Near to the Rose, where Punks in Number flock / To pick up Cullies to increase their Stock.
at cully, n.1
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 19: The old Cuss fell to peeping in the Seams and Gathers.
at cuss, n.1
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 132: Damn Whores, I’d not give Three-pence for a T--t.
at damn, adj.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 131: As you for Drinking, Neighbour, or for Eating? / You’ll always make one stay, the Duce is in ye.
at deuce, the, phr.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 89: No sooner had he found that she had burnt his Pope, but he presently concluded [...] that instead of a Maiden-head, she had given him for his Five Guineas, a confounded Clap.
at put the devil into hell (v.) under devil, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 107: The Prince then enters on the Stage [...] He shakes the Dome, and tears his Lungs with Verse.
at dome, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 26: The frightened Wife [...] made a lamentable Out-cry among the Neighbourhood, That her Husband had murder’d himself by cutting off his Doolittle.
at doolittle, n.
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 91: The Judge’s lady [...] sent immediately for the Dutch Tooth-Drawer.
at Dutch, adj.2
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 83: A young Lady of the Town, who had fired her Tail by an immoderate Resignation of her Favours.
at fire, v.1
[UK] Laugh and Be Fat 83: A young Lady of the Town, who had fired her Tail by an immoderate Resignation of her Favours, have privately taken a Lodging in the same House.
at fire, v.1
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