pick-purse

Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut.

As You Like It 2004

I think she regretted that ever she had cried out in the first place, but if the law must know of it, she would ensure that it was accepted as a trivial theft by some common pick-purse.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

I think she regretted that ever she had cried out in the first place, but if the law must know of it, she would ensure that it was accepted as a trivial theft by some common pick-purse.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

He spoke in the dialect of the pick-purse and magsman.

Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

Yes: I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer; but for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut.

Act III. Scene IV. As You Like It 1914

Think ye this bloody pick-purse dealt fairly by his crew?

Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

The very line in which he makes the claim ( 'I am no pick-purse of another's wit') is a verbatim theft from a sonnet of Sir Philip Sidney.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pick-purse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.

Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858

But yet they that begot and brought forth that our old ancient purgatory pick-purse; that that was swaged and cooled with a Franciscan's cowl, put upon a dead man's back, to the fourth part of his sins; that that was utterly to be spoiled, and of none other but of our most prudent lord

Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858

Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut.

As You Like It 1599