Citations:wagpastie

English citations of wagpastie, wag-pastie, wagpasty, and wag-pasty

Noun: "a rogue"

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• c. 1552, Nicolas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister, act 3, scene 2:

  Mathew Merygreeke: I will call hir: Maide with whome are ye so hastie?
  Tibet Talkapace: Not with you sir, but with a little wag-pastie,
  A deceiuer of folkes, by subtill craft and guile.
  Mathew Merygreeke: I knowe where she is: Dobinet hath wrought some wile.

• c. 1562, Nicolas Udall, Jacke Jugeler, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 1914, page 70:

  Truly this wagpastie is eyther drunck or mad.

• c. 1558–77, anonymous author, Misogonus, act 2, scene 4; republished in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Six Anonymous Plays‎^[1], London: The Early English Drama Society, 1906, page 181:

  Nay, I'll none of that, friend! you play not now with boys;
  Ery little wagpasty could say: Nought stake, nought draw.

• c. 1597–1600, anonymous author, Club Law‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 1907, act 4, scene 5, page 74:

  Dost thou saye so little wagpastie? Cod me tanke you alwaye for your curtesie, your name is written in my hart, […]

• 1634, Mabbe, James, transl., The Rogue: or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, 3rd edition, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán, page 278:

  In concluſion, ſuch kinde of women, as theſe, are prejudiciall, untameable, notable lurchers, arrant theeves; farre worſe than that ſouldiers boy, who playd the wag-paſty with his Maſters Paſty; and of eight Maravedis made twelve.

• 1638, Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hoxton; republished in Verity, Arthur Wilson, editor, Thomas Heywood‎^[3], London: T. Fisher Unwin, c. 1890s, page 324:

  Have patience, and in the end we'll pay you all. Your worships are most heartily welcome. I made bold to send for you, and you may see to what end, which was to discover unto you the wild vagaries of this wanton wag-pasty—a wild oats I warrant him—and, Sir Harry, that your daughter hath scaped this scouring, thank this gentleman, and then make of him as he deserves.

• 2003, Gary Blackwood, Shakespeare's Spy (The Shakespeare Stealer; 3):

  I'm sorry to cut short our delightful conversation, my dear, but it's time I took these wagpasties upstairs and put them through their paces.