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Pocket a little Poke Tudor Guildsmen Pick pocket is not to be found in Either Dictionary Pick purse is
in Ben Johnson Time Pockets seem to have been newly brought into use his Pickpockets are Constently Stile Cut purses or Pick purses Edworth the Cutpurse in Barthems Fair says would he had another Purse to Cut a man might Cut out his Kidneys
in another Place he is Exhibited tickling Copes Ear with a Straw to make him take his hand from his Pocket &c
1530 a Purse of the Spanish Fashion Palsgrave / was not this a Purse worn on a Belt over the Shoulder instead of a Girdle
a big Leather Purse worne by men, Right before their Cod peice Cotyr Boursault
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