Beaumont and Fletcher

Addict

He is addicted to his study.

Aleberry

Their aleberries, caudles, possets.

Amber

You that smell of amber at my charge.

Appointment

I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appointment, that thou liest.

Apprehend

G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how.

Apt

Apter to give than thou wit be to ask.

Arm

His shoulders broad and strong, Armed long and round.

Atilt

Abroach, atilt, and run Even to the lees of honor.

Aventine

Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him.

Bairn

Has he not well provided for the bairn?

Bate

Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, He lies that says it.

Being

What a sweet being is an honest mind !

And being you have Declined his means, you have increased his malice.

Bevy

What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here !

Bore

I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems.

Bravery

A man that is the bravery of his age.

Call

This speech calls him Spaniard.

Can

Mæcænas and Agrippa, who can most with Cæsar.

Cant

The rankest rogue that ever canted.

Capcase

A capcase for your linen and your plate.

Chined

He's chined, goodman.

Clew

Direct and clew me out the way to happiness.

Cobweb

Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn.

Comparative

Gerard ever was His full comparative.

Comport

How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.

Condition

Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye.

Conversationed

Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows.

Correctify

When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady.

Corruptress

Thou studied old corruptress.

Cox

Go; you're a brainless cox, a toy, a fop.

Crisp

Your neat crisp claret.

Crouch

Now crouch like a cur.

Cullis

When I am exellent at caudles And cullises . . . you shall be welcome to me.

Curious

How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith?

Cut

He'll buy me a cut, forth for to ride.

Dainty

That precious nectar may the taste renew Of Eden's dainties, by our parents lost.

Dare

Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep.

For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman.

defy

For thee I have defied my constant mistress.

Deliverly

Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly.

Dependence

To go on now with my first dependence.

Design

Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design.

Devotion

Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos.

Disensanity

What tediosity and disensanity Is here among!

Dispair

I have . . . dispaired two doves.

Displant

I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy.

Displease

I shall displease my ends else.

Doubt

The virtues of the valiant Caratach More doubt me than all Britain.

Downcast

That downcast of thine eye.

Dudgeon

By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon, I would not be an ass.

Dull

Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of such a matchless wife.

Entice

Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull.

Excellent

Their sorrows are most excellent.

Experient

The prince now ripe and full experient.

Extol

Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties.

Eye-saint

That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants.

Figent

Such a little figent thing.

File

I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed.

Fitter

Where's the Frenchman? Alas, he's all fitters.

Flesh

Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.

Flight

Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have.

Flirt

I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted.

Flirt-gill

You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill.

Florentine

Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines.

For

We'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet.

Forespeak

My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass.

Frampel

Is Pompey grown so malapert, so frampel?

Friendly

In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly met.

Fumer

Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers.

Gigget

Cut the slaves to giggets.

Give

I'll not state them By giving up their characters.

Gleek

A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.

Guardianess

I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess.

Gules

Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns.

Had

You were best hang yourself.

Hatch

His weapon hatched in blood.

Hatchment

Let there be deducted, out of our main potation, Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh.

Hurter

I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.

Illustrious

Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious.

Imposturous

Strictness fales and impostrous.

Induction

I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.

Inscrutable

'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable.

Intend

Modesty was made When she was first intended.

Inwardly

I shall desire to know him more inwardly.

Jig

A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme Praised and applauded.

Is't not a fine jig, A precious cunning, in the late Protector?

Kell

I'll have him cut to the kell.

Kimnel

She knew not what a kimnel was

Kirsome

I am a true kirsome woman.

Knell

Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee.

Lampless

Your ladies' eyes are lampless to that virtue.

Letter

A strange lock that opens with AMEN.

Libertine

You are too much libertine.

Lucern

The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase.

Mahound

Who's this, my mahound cousin ?

Mankind

Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing?

Maw

Unless you had more maw to do me good.

Moan

Which infinitely moans me.

Motion

What motion's this? the model of Nineveh?

Muck

The fatal muck we quarreled for.

Mulligrubs

Whose dog lies sick of the mulligrubs?

Mute

Have I muted all my feathers?

Neigh

Neighed at his nakedness.

Obscure

How! There's bad news. I must obscure, and hear it.

Observance

This is not atheism, But court observance.

Often

And weary thee with often welcomes.

Outname

And found out one to outname thy other faults.

Oversell

One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy.

Pair

Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.

Patch

Your black patches you wear variously.

Pay

'T was I paid for your sleeps; I watched your wakings.

Provand

One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day.

Purchase

I'll . . . get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase.

Purse

I'll purse: . . . I'll bet at bowling alleys.

Quarried

Now I am bravely quarried.

Reach

Do what, sir? I reach you not.

Resolve

Sir, be resolved. I must and will come.

Ripler

But what's the action we are for now ? Robbing a ripper of his fish.

Runt

Before I buy a bargain of such runts, I'll buy a college for bears, and live among 'em.

Rutter

Such a regiment of rutters Never defied men braver.

Safety

Would there were any safety in thy sex, That I might put a thousand sorrows off, And credit thy repentance!

Sconce

One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches.

Scout

Take more men, And scout him round.

Shadow

Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.

Shake

What danger? Who 's that that shakes behind there?

Shoot

An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle.

Shrive

Get you to the church and shrive yourself.

Single

He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.

Skull

Let me put on my skull first.

Smell-less

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint.

Smug

A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow.

Snick

Give him money, George, and let him go snick up.

Somersault

Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset.

Spot

If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury.

Spout

Pray, spout some French, son.

Square

By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.

Squelch

Oh 't was your luck and mine to be squelched.

Stain

She stains the ripest virgins of her age.

Stark

Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.

Stock

I must buy the stock; send me good cardings.

Strange

Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause.

Strip

Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him.

Successary

My peculiar honors, not derived From successary, but purchased with my blood.

Sufficient

Thou art the most sufficient (I'll say for thee), Not to believe a thing.

Table

And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences.

Task

Too impudent to task me with those errors.

Think

So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son.

Tiller

You can shoot in a tiller.

Time

Some few lines set unto a solemn time.

Tith

Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith.

Token

Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends.

Tongue

She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor.

Toy

What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.

Traduce

I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers.

Trance

Trance the world over.

Transgress

Why give you peace to this imperate beast That hath so long transgressed you ?

Treacher

Treacher and coward both.

Trenchmore

All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore.

Twire

I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee.

Twire-pipe

You are an ass, a twire-pipe.

Unnapped

I did not attempt her with a threadbare name, Unnapped with meritorious actions.

Upsitting

To invite your lady's upsitting.

Useless

Useless are all words Till you have writ “performance” with your swords. The other is for waiving.

Vilify

I do vilify your censure.

Waistcoateer

Do you think you are here, sir, Amongst your waistcoateers, your base wenches?

Wait

Hark! are the waits abroad?

Wale

Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride.

Want

They that want honesty, want anything.

Wanton

Anything, sir, That's dry and wholesome; I am no bred wanton.

Warden

I would have had him roasted like a warden.

Wash

Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper.

Wassail

Have you done your wassail! 'T is a handsome, drowsy ditty, I'll assure you.

Waster

Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head.

While

I may be conveyed into your chamber; I'll lie under your bed while midnight.

Whimling

Go, whimling, and fetch two or three grating loaves.

White

A pistol charged with white powder.

Will

Send for music, And will the cooks to use their best of cunning To please the palate.

Wise

Nor, on the other side, Will I be penuriously wise As to make money, that's my slave, my idol.

Woodcock

If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, “A woodcock!”

Worser

Thou dost deserve a worser end.

Yield

God yield thee, and God thank ye.