The Choise of Valentines - Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash
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17 _ladies_, Ladyes. 18 _she_, shee; _valentine_, valentyne. 19 _woe, alass_, out, alas. 20 _an upper_, another. 21 _-haft and crab-tree face_, with his crabbed face. 22 _scar'd hir_, scard her; _the_, that. 23 _And now she was compel'd for Sanctuarie_, And she, poore wench, compeld for Sanctuary. 24 _unto_, into; _venery_, Venery. 25 _bouldlie,_, bouldly; _enquire_, inquire. 26 _hackneis_, hackneyes. Hackney, a person or thing let out for promiscuous use, _e.g._, a horse, a whore, a literary drudge. _Cf_. "The hobby-horse is but a colt, and your love perhaps a hackney."--_Love's Labour Lost_, iii., 1. 27 _crau'd_, craud. 29 _Therwith out stept_, With that, stept forth; _three chinnd_, three-chinde. Foggie = fat, bloated, having hanging flesh. _Cf_. "Some three chind foggie dame."--Dolarney, _Primrose_. |
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