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Playful Poems by Unknown
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{114} And, in old English could be placed like "also" in different
parts of a sentence. Thus, in Nymphidia,
"She hies her then to Lethe spring,
A bottle and thereof doth bring."
{129} Atalantis, "As long as Atalantis shall be read." Atalantis
was a book of Court scandal by Mrs. De la Riviere Manley, in four
volumes, entitled "Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of
Quality of both Sexes from the New Atalantis, an Island in the
Mediterranean." Mrs. Manley died in 1724.

{94h} Bauzon, badger. French, bausin.
{147a} Billies, fellows, used rather contemptuously.
{147f} Blellum, idle talker.
{150a} Boddle, a Scottish copper coin worth the third part of an
English halfpenny; said to be named after the Mint-master who first
coined it, Bothwell.
{150h} Bore, hole in the wall.
{91e} But, "without," "but merriness," without mirth.
{152d} Byke, hive.

{150f} Cantrip, charm, spell. Icelandic, gandr, enchantment; gand-
reithr was the witches' ride.
{83} Can'wick Street, Candlewick, where now there is Cannon Street.
{86a} Champarty, Champartage, was a feudal levy of a share of profit
from the ground (campi pars), based originally upon aid given to
enable profit to be earned. Thus it became a law term for right of
a stranger to fixed share in any profits that on such condition he
helped a litigant to win.
{85b} Chiche vache, lean cow. French chiche, Latin ciccus,
wretched, worthless; from Greek kikkos, the core of a pomegranate.
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