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Black-letter Broadside Ballads Of The years 1595-1639

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GLOSSARIAL INDEX
Sweden, peace of, in 1613, with Den­mark, 44 sweet, pleasing to the taste, 331 (16) sweeting, a, dear one, 5 (13), 82 (17) swell, to, become pregnant, 265 (6) swim in silk and gold, to, 191 (2) swines, 338 (2) swine's-faced gentlewoman, the, 449
tables, backgammon, 357 (5)
tabor and fife, to dance after, i.e. to be
married, 235 (3) Talbot, the, an alehouse, 338 (3) tallents, talons, 152 (6) tane, taken, 80 (7), 423 (9), 436 (16) taplash, dregs of liquor, very stale beer,
194(7) tattle, to, prattle, 35 (16), 360 (15) taverns, methods of sharpers in, de­scribed, 245 Taylor, John, the Water Poet, 11,342,
365 teens, the, 136 (12) tel, till, 224 (4) Temple, Sir Peter, 249 tester (testern, teston), a, sixpence,
three slips for, 270 Teyborne. See Tyburn than, then, 427 (8), passim the, i.e. they, 281 (17) theatres, the Bull, 30, 35 (15); the
Curtain, 30, 35 (15); the Fortune,
277,280 (10); the Globe,the Swan,
35 05) theies, i.e. the eyes, 79 (4)
theile (thele), they'll, 13 (6), 362 (13)
then, than, passim
there, their, 37 (23 f.), etc.
Thirty Years' War, ballads on, 415
Thomas and Margaret, a jig of, 173
thorough (thorow), through, 103 (23),
169, 326(9) thought, i.e. though it, 401 (3) thrasher, a, one who separates grain from
straw by beating with a flail, 272 (5) three-cornered night-cap, the, gallows,
247 (19)
three hundred sixty-five children at
one birth, ballad on, 121 thrids, threads, 40 (1) throw, see thorough Timoneda, Juan de, 121 tinder-boxes, 41 (5) Tinker o/Turvey, The, 60 title, to, entitle, 50 (1) to (too), two, 31 (3), 167 (9), 289
(3), 390(12) toast, a, browned bread put into wine
or ale, 274 (10) toasts drown'd in ale, 246 (14) tobacco, 246 (12 f.), 394 (1), 396
(5 f.), 409(15) Tomson, Emanuel, 206 too, see to too too, used absolutely for very much
or exceedingly, 8 (18), 433 (6) toot, i.e. to it, 231 (7), 233 (13) tother, 269 (15), 327 (12),-335 (13) Tothill Street, London, 284 n. tottered, variant of tattered, 245 (9 f.) touch, to keep, keep faith, 373 (10),
395 (2) Tourval, M. de, 248 Tower, the, of London, 91 (7 if.), 144 Tower Hill, the, news from, 376 Towerson, Captain Gabriel, 205 (1 5),
206 toying, amorously dallying, 237 (12) toys, trifles, childish amusements, 35
(16), 330(10) translator, a, low-class cobbler, 409
(14) trauell, travail, 13 (4)
travailed, travelled, 451
tray, trey, three (of dice), 383 (7 f.)
treason, petty, discussion of, 299
trice, in a, 246 (1 5), 318 (3)
trim, to, furnish, equip, 35 (18)
tript, to go on foot, 63 (12)
trot, to, go at a rapid gait, fig. to work,
365 ff. trot, a, old woman, 318 (6) troth, truth, 8 (17 f.) Trott, Anthony, 299
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