"God's-pennie, an earnest-pennie."--Florio, p. 36.
37 _oratorie siccarlie_, oratory, siccarly. "Oratory," properly a
private chapel or closet for prayer; here a canting term for brothel:
cf. abbess = bawd; nun = whore, and so forth. "Siccarly," certainly,
surely "Thou art here, sykerlye, Thys churche to robb with felonye,"
MS. Cantab Ff. ii., 38, f. 240.
38 _heere_, in; _nicarie_, deuory. "Nick," female _pudendum_: hence
nickery, copulation. Deuory may either be Fr. _devoir_, duty; or
devoure, to ravish, to deflower.
39 _offertorie_, affidavit.
40 _wee'le_, Ile.
41 _hearing hir so ernest_, seeing her soe earnest.
42 _Gave hir hir_, I gaue her her; _and she the dore unlocks_, and she
the doare vnlockes.
43 _In am I entered_, Nowe I am entered; _venus_, sweet Venus.
44 _where's this female_, where's the female; _do this_, do the.
45 _By_, through; _meanders and by crankled_, meander and through
crooked.
46 _Shee leades_, Shee leads; _Aucthor saies_, author sayes.
47 _we came within_, I came vnto; _shadie_, shady.
48 _bounsing vestalls_, bouncing vestures; _skirmish_, skyrmish;
_oft_, omitted.
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