merry-go-down

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If this shift serve not (neither doth the fox use always one track for fear of a snare), they will compound with some one of the town where the market is holden, who for a pot of "huffcap" or "merry-go-down," will not let to buy it for them, and that in his own name.

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  1. Strong ale, or huff-cap. [Old cant.] I present you with meate, and you … can do no less than present mee with the best morning's draught of merry-go-downe in your quarters. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, Ded. (Harl. Misc., VI. 145).

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  • If this shift serve not (neither doth the fox use always one track for fear of a snare), they will compound with some one of the town where the market is holden, who for a pot of "huffcap" or "merry-go-down," will not let to buy it for them, and that in his own name. —  Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
 

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